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* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' features an improbably big hacking center packed into a shipping container on the back of a tractor trailer. They do at least make it a little sensible, as the container is able to expand and contract to reasonable sizes to make it inconspicuous in city areas.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' features an improbably big hacking center packed into a shipping container on the back of a tractor trailer. They do at least make it a little sensible, as the container is able to expand and contract to reasonable sizes to make it inconspicuous in city areas.
* ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'' features the missile train, which while not that big, makes up for it in armor, length and sheer implausibly over-the-top goodness. Since the train was filmed in the UK and is a converted BR one, it's actually slightly too narrow due to a wider gauge of railway in the former USSR.
* ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'' features the missile train, which while not that big, makes up for it in armor, length and sheer implausibly over-the-top goodness. Since the train was filmed in the UK and is a converted BR one, it's actually slightly too narrow due to a wider gauge of railway in the former USSR.
* The mobile base for KITT in ''[[Knight Rider]]'' is a big truck. Notice that it seems to have some [[Doctor Who (TV)|TARDIS]] technology applied, as it is bigger in the inside than in the outside. The ''[[Myth Busters]]'' proved it is possible to drive into a semi that's traveling at freeway speeds.
* The mobile base for KITT in ''[[Knight Rider]]'' is a big truck. Notice that it seems to have some [[Doctor Who|TARDIS]] technology applied, as it is bigger in the inside than in the outside. The ''[[Myth Busters]]'' proved it is possible to drive into a semi that's traveling at freeway speeds.
* ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'' - The Big Bad in the second movie had one of these. In addition to a number of World War 2 style warships. Needless to say they actually managed to looked out of place even in the [[Schizo Tech]] the series runs on.
* ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'' - The Big Bad in the second movie had one of these. In addition to a number of World War 2 style warships. Needless to say they actually managed to looked out of place even in the [[Schizo-Tech]] the series runs on.
* The ''[[Speed Racer (Film)|Speed Racer]]'' movie had Cruncher Block hanging out in the well-furnished (complete with piranha tank) back of a big red truck. This is possibly a [[Shout Out]] to the Mammoth Car from the original cartoon, which blurred the line between [[Cool Car]] and ''[[Cool Train]]''.
* The ''[[Speed Racer (Film)|Speed Racer]]'' movie had Cruncher Block hanging out in the well-furnished (complete with piranha tank) back of a big red truck. This is possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to the Mammoth Car from the original cartoon, which blurred the line between [[Cool Car]] and ''[[Cool Train]]''.
* From ''[[A New Hope|Star Wars IV: A New Hope]]'', the sandcrawlers that the Jawas tooled around in were bases on tracks. To a lesser extent, the Imperial AT-ATs. They were basically large troop-carrying assault guns, but various depictions showed them being capable of carrying speeders similar to the ones seen in ''Return of the Jedi''.
* From ''[[A New Hope|Star Wars IV: A New Hope]]'', the sandcrawlers that the Jawas tooled around in were bases on tracks. To a lesser extent, the Imperial AT-ATs. They were basically large troop-carrying assault guns, but various depictions showed them being capable of carrying speeders similar to the ones seen in ''Return of the Jedi''.
* ''[[Ultraviolet]]'' includes a semi-truck apparently containing a spacious office, a two-story minimalist apartment, a supercomputer, a (literal) [[Hyperspace Armoury]] and sufficient equipment to fix the protagonist's motorcyccle. However, there is sufficient other usage of TARDIS technology that is one of the least jarring things about the film.
* ''[[Ultraviolet]]'' includes a semi-truck apparently containing a spacious office, a two-story minimalist apartment, a supercomputer, a (literal) [[Hyperspace Armoury]] and sufficient equipment to fix the protagonist's motorcyccle. However, there is sufficient other usage of TARDIS technology that is one of the least jarring things about the film.
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** The [[X Wing Series]] has Ysanne Isard's ''Lusankya'', a ''very'' [[Cool Starship]]. It's a Super Star Destroyer, sister ship to ''Executor'', but until it rises from where it's been buried under a city, the New Republic knows it only as a rumored secret prison where captured Rebels are [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|tortured]] and turned into [[Manchurian Agent|Manchurian Agents]]. It's big enough to do that and have a largish prison, whose population has no clue that they're not in a cave somewhere. After pulling free of the surface and causing mass death in the process, ''Lusankya'' becomes a sort of Base On Engines.
** The [[X Wing Series]] has Ysanne Isard's ''Lusankya'', a ''very'' [[Cool Starship]]. It's a Super Star Destroyer, sister ship to ''Executor'', but until it rises from where it's been buried under a city, the New Republic knows it only as a rumored secret prison where captured Rebels are [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|tortured]] and turned into [[Manchurian Agent|Manchurian Agents]]. It's big enough to do that and have a largish prison, whose population has no clue that they're not in a cave somewhere. After pulling free of the surface and causing mass death in the process, ''Lusankya'' becomes a sort of Base On Engines.
** {{spoiler|The city is actually Coruscant, the capital of the New Republic, and a City Planet, and the Lusankya was actually buried ''upside down''!}}
** {{spoiler|The city is actually Coruscant, the capital of the New Republic, and a City Planet, and the Lusankya was actually buried ''upside down''!}}
* Patrick Tilley's ''Amtrak Wars'' novels, set a long time [[After the End]], feature the Amtrak Federation, fighting an expansionist war out of Texas using giant "wagon-trains" that act as bases for troops and aircraft carriers for fleets of microlights. They're called the Amtrak Federation because they live in underground cities that were originally nuclear bunkers, connected by the "rail garrison" trains mentioned above, running on the Amtrak rail network. [[Truth in Television]]: The wagon trains are based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_train Overland Train concept] tested by the U.S. Army.
* Patrick Tilley's ''Amtrak Wars'' novels, set a long time [[After the End]], feature the Amtrak Federation, fighting an expansionist war out of Texas using giant "wagon-trains" that act as bases for troops and aircraft carriers for fleets of microlights. They're called the Amtrak Federation because they live in underground cities that were originally nuclear bunkers, connected by the "rail garrison" trains mentioned above, running on the Amtrak rail network. [[Truth in Television]]: The wagon trains are based on the [[wikipedia:Overland train|Overland Train concept]] tested by the U.S. Army.
* In [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks']] ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' the protagonist explores a military command bunker left behind by an extinct species that consisted of a nuclear-powered subway train, the theory being that by constantly moving around through a system of underground rail tunnels the enemy wouldn't be able to target it effectively with atomic weapons. It seems to have worked, to a degree, considering the system remains intact long after the war that killed off the species. However, it turns out they managed to make themselves extinct through biological warfare, making the whole grand set-up ultimately pointless.
* In [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks']] ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' the protagonist explores a military command bunker left behind by an extinct species that consisted of a nuclear-powered subway train, the theory being that by constantly moving around through a system of underground rail tunnels the enemy wouldn't be able to target it effectively with atomic weapons. It seems to have worked, to a degree, considering the system remains intact long after the war that killed off the species. However, it turns out they managed to make themselves extinct through biological warfare, making the whole grand set-up ultimately pointless.
* ''[[The Inverted World]]'' - There was a very strange version of this in Christopher Priest's novel. A city moved slowly along on rails, which the inhabitants of the city were constantly busy building ahead of it and dismantling behind it, and rather than having motors driving wheels it used winches and cables to slide along. The city was forced to keep moving because the geometry of space was distorted, with the world "ahead" and "behind" them stretched into uninhabitable proportions and the safe zone of "normal" space was gradually moving relative to the surface of the planet. The city had to keep up.
* ''[[The Inverted World]]'' - There was a very strange version of this in Christopher Priest's novel. A city moved slowly along on rails, which the inhabitants of the city were constantly busy building ahead of it and dismantling behind it, and rather than having motors driving wheels it used winches and cables to slide along. The city was forced to keep moving because the geometry of space was distorted, with the world "ahead" and "behind" them stretched into uninhabitable proportions and the safe zone of "normal" space was gradually moving relative to the surface of the planet. The city had to keep up.
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* ''Wild Wild West'' had a train (complete with a steam locomotive) filled with gadgets and spy-equipment, as an operating base for the heroes.
* ''Wild Wild West'' had a train (complete with a steam locomotive) filled with gadgets and spy-equipment, as an operating base for the heroes.
* The 80s ''[[Knight Rider]]'' series had a truck which KITT would periodically drive into for repairs and upgrades.
* The 80s ''[[Knight Rider]]'' series had a truck which KITT would periodically drive into for repairs and upgrades.
* UNIT has an HQ on wheels that is featured in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episodes "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky".
* UNIT has an HQ on wheels that is featured in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky".
* Jim Rockford on ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' both lived in and worked out of a old, dilapidated mobile home, which usually remained parked on a Malibu beach, but on a few occasions, when he needed to skip town in a hurry, he hitched his trailer up (with the help of his retired trucker dad) and took home with him.
* Jim Rockford on ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' both lived in and worked out of a old, dilapidated mobile home, which usually remained parked on a Malibu beach, but on a few occasions, when he needed to skip town in a hurry, he hitched his trailer up (with the help of his retired trucker dad) and took home with him.


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