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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|"... the tie goes to the train." ~~(Old railfan saying)}}~~ \|Old railfan saying}} {{quote\|''He saw ''The train ''And tried to duck it ''Kicked first the gas ''And then the bucket~~\|'''[[Burma-Shave]]'''}}~~ \|''[[Burma-Shave]]''}} So, you've got a [[Super Speed\|speedster]]... let's call him Steve. There are many ways you can show off a character's ~~powers-- guys~~powers—guys with [[Super Strength]] can lift buses, gals with [[Flight]] can jump off tall buildings and not plummet to their deaths, guys with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?\|Heart]] can... uh... that's not important. But what can good ol' Steve Speedster do? Race a bullet train, that's what! Basically, someone shows off how fast they (or their [[Pimped-Out Car]]) are by running parallel to, or if he's particularly cocky, in front of a train. It goes without saying that this is a horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad idea in [[Real Life]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] == * In one of the Choujin Olympics in ''[[Kinnikuman]]'', Terryman had to race ahead of a train he himself had pushed as part of a qualifier round because a puppy had wandered onto the track. Saving the puppy meant [[Trainstopping\|stopping the train]] which, despite his heroism, got Terryman disqualified. == ~~Comics~~[[Comic Books]] == * In one issue of ''[[The Flash]]'', Wally realizes that while he was fighting a supercriminal, his girlfriend was taking a train and leaving town. He then proceeds to run down the train, climb on board, and asks her to stay. Line 26 ⟶ 28: * A version of this happens in Legend of Zorro when the horse, Tornado, is racing to catch up to the train * The famous [[Chase Scene]] in ''[[The French Connection]]''. * ''[[Cars]]'': Lightning McQueen does it while trying to catch up to what he thinks is Mac, narrowly avoiding a collision at (presumably) a level crossing on the Santa Fe railroad in Seligman, Arizona.▼ * ''Used Cars'' (1982): A race against the clock to get the last of "a mile of cars" to a lot leads to a vehicle being involved in a near-miss at a level crossing. == [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'': In at least one episode, the villians barely made it across a railroad crossing with a train coming, to escape pursuit by the Duke boys and the General Lee. Bo simply used a convenient ramp to ''jump over'' the train in eventually catching the baddies. * '''Operation:Livesaver''': The public safety awareness campaign's "These are the next 60 seconds of your life ..." series of commercials often depicted the ~~consequencs~~consequences of racing a train, always with deadly results. One common example showed a Volkswagen Cabriolet, filled with five teen-agers joyriding, speeding and trying to race an oncoming train to the crossing; needless to say, they didn't make it and the community where they lived was thrown into sudden and deep mourning. * ''[[Top Gear]]'' has used the format several times with Jeremy Clarkson in a car vs. James May and Richard Hammond riding the train. In Europe the train was the Eurostar and TGV, and in Japan it was the ''Shinkansen''. == [[Video Games]] == * In ''[[Mega Man X\|Megaman X4]]'', Slash Beast shows up to the [[Traintop Battle]] by running parallel up to, then jumping onto the train car used as his boss room when X or Zero get to it * Piston Hondo does this in ''[[Punch -Out!!]] Wii'' in his backstory. * One of the robotic bosses of ''[[Contra]] Hard Corps'' and ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'' makes his entrance by outrunning the train you're on, pushes it to a stop, lifts the end of it, then climbs on top. This turns out to be a bad idea in the end- upon defeat, he falls backwards off the front of the train, and gets hit by it! ** And in ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'', an [[Expy]] of said boss does the exact same thing, except that you're on a small train carriage which the boss lifts off the ground with ease. * Jude of ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ARMs 4]]'' does this [[Hero Stole My Bike\|while riding a bicycle]]. The bike eventually breaks from the strain. * The level "Wrong Side of the Tracks" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' involves you and Big Smoke trying to chase a train while on a dirt bike so that he can shoot the rival gang members atop the train. It's [[That One Level]], due to the fact that [[Guide Dang It\|the game never tells you]] that you need to be at least another train's width away from the train so that Big Smoke can hit them. {{quote\|[[Memetic Mutation\|"All you had to do was]] [[Most Annoying Sound\|follow the damn train, CJ!"]]}} Line 45 ⟶ 49: ** The Road Runner's observation of safety is reprised in a later '''Operation:Lifesaver''' commercial aimed at children. In it, the Road Runner, despite his ability to put some extra speed in his already fast run, is aware of safety rules concerning railroad crossings and stops to allow a train to pass. Of course, Wile E. Coyote arrogantly doesn't, and he (once again) is crushed beneath another oncoming train. * The MGM cartoon ''One Cab's Family'', starting around 5:15 ▲* ''[[Cars]]'': Lightning McQueen does it while trying to catch up to what he thinks is Mac. * In Warners' ''Streamlined Gretna Green'', Junior the roadster tries to outrace a train, gets hit (naturally) and has to go the hospital/body shop; once he recovers he then goes and does it ''again'', this time it's the train that gets the worst of it. Line 58 ⟶ 61: [[Category:Motor Vehicle Tropes]] [[Category:Vehicle Tropes]] [[Category:~~Racing the Train~~{{PAGENAME}}]]