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Razor Train
General information
Affiliation	Combine
Type	Train
Health	N/A (cannot be killed)
Weapon(s)	N/A
Game information
Entity / spawn codes	N/A (prop, cannot be spawned)
Designer(s)	Viktor Antonov Dhabih Eng[1]

 

A Razor Train is a train used by the Combine for transporting freight and prisoners between cities and outposts.

OverviewEdit

As with much of Combine technology, the Razor Train is large, mostly featureless, and imposing. Custom-built to work on human rail networks transporting standard, secret cargo, human prisoners and Stalkers. One particular function they serve is to transport human prisoners to Nova Prospekt, the Combine-controlled prison/laboratory, and transport completed Stalkers and Overwatch Soldiers to the Citadel. Their ram-like, razor-thin appearance and all-black finish add to the threatening look of the fast moving vehicle.

Razor Trains resemble modern "hood unit" locomotives, one of which bears a dark red marking on the sides. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of the Razor Train is its horn: a distinctive, discordant bellow that announces the Train's arrival and sounds more like a wounded animal than an air horn. This is by no means always the case, though, as several times during Half-Life 2 and its episodes, they emit low air horn bellows instead. In addition, both of these sound effects are occasionally higher than normal, exhibited in chapters 3 and 7.

While razor trains are very fast and completely unyielding to any objects that may be on the tracks, from other vehicles to people to even friendly Combine units, all locomotives have what appear to be a driver's cab. This would suggest that razor trains may be crewed, or at least can be driven manually.

As seen in the Combine Depot and in Route Kanal, the trains seem to carry short loads in rapid succession at high speed as opposed to fewer but more heavily loaded trains. Seen in chapters 3 and 7, Razor Trains accompany human trains on the same railways.

Razor trains are unarmed. They do sometimes serve as an environmental hazard, however, specifically during the chapters Route Kanal and Highway 17.

GalleryEdit

Pre-releaseEdit

Early train in City 17, with the Citadel in the background.

Logo seen on the previous train.

Razor Trains and people in an early City 17 Trainstation.

Razor Train running through the Wasteland near the Air Exchange (and a part of the skybox).

Early screenshot of a Razor Train being lifted.

Early concept art by Viktor Antonov.

Concept art for the Razor Train in the Depot.

Ditto.

Ditto.

The early brush Razor Train passing through the Combine Factories.

The early brush Razor Train.

"C17" logo featured on both sides of the engine.

The early brush Razor Train reused in a piece of concept art for the Depot, bearing the word "ЗиЛ", which is the name of a Russian truck constructor (based on the map "wasteland_depot").

The same spot in the original map, "wasteland_depot".

Razor Train cars in the early Depot in the map "wasteland_depot_inside".

Razor Train in the same map.

Concept art of a Razor Train traveling through the Wasteland, based on the map "hub_test.vmf".

Razor Train locomotive near the Depot.

Concept art for the City 17 Trainstation with Razor Trains inside (here seen through the broken glass roof).

Ditto.

Ditto.

Razor Train passing on a bridge above the Canals.

City 17 Razor Train poster, apparently featuring a locomotive model.

RetailEdit

Razor Trains on the Nova Prospekt platforms in the City 17 Trainstation.

A Razor Train passes by a canal and residential apartments.

A Razor Train about to ram the player at Bridge Point.

Razor Train passing by in the Depot.

A Razor Train locomotive.

A closed Razor Train car.

A Stalker car.

A Razor Train in the Citadel.

Inside the Stalker car during Gordon's and Alyx's ride.

Ditto.

Dead Zombines in a Razor Train.

List of appearancesEdit

• Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
• Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (Non-canonical appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Episode One

ReferencesEdit