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== In General ==

* Most media involving the outlaw Jesse James depicts at least one of these, which is at least partly historically accurate. This dates back to [[Dime Novel|dime novels]] during the time of his life.

 

* If we're talking about trains being robbed from ''outside'' then the first episode of ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' would count.

* The first mission in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' involved stopping one being performed by [[Big Bad|Scaglietti's]] [[Mecha-Mooks|Gadget Drones]] on a supply train.

* The 1931/Grand Punk Railroad arc of ''[[Baccano!]]'' revolves around three separate parties (a terrorist cult, [[The Mafia]], and a Chicago-based street gang) attempting to hijack the same train all at once. The end result is a [[Traintop Battle]] of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic proportions]]. It wasn't helped by the [[Urban Legend|Rail Tracer]].

* A variant in the Water 7 arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', where Sanji infiltrates a train in an attempt to rescue Robin, who was being transported to Enies Lobby on it.

 

* Train robbers are common bad guys in ''[[Jonah Hex]]''.

* In their first appearance in the [[Batman]] comics, the western themed villains the Trigger Twins attempt to pull off a train job by robbing the money train that collects the takings from the Gotham subway.

 

* Naturally, the classic 1903 film ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]''.

* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part 3'', Doc hijacks a local train. When asked if this was a train robbery, he responds that it's a "science experiment." In some ways, this in an inversion of the trope. Other robbers would take valuables from the train and leave the train itself undamaged. Doc and Marty took the train (and destroyed it) the valuables on the train weren't even discussed, much less taken. Although considering the comparative value of gold to that of a locomotive at the time they actually destroyed something worth a lot more than regular robbers would have taken from anything short of a bank transport train.

* The last "dance" sequence in ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' is a futuristic train heist.

 

* ''The Great Train Robbery'' by [[Michael Crichton]] depicts a historical train robbery, although the accuracy is... questionable.

* A prison train gets ''hijacked'' in ''[[Matthew Reilly|The Six Sacred Stones]]'' by the good guys as part of an escape plan.

* Sets up the plot of ''[[Millions]]'': as Britain changes over to the Euro, a group of thieves rob a train carrying millions of pounds on their way to be incinerated. Some bags of money get lost and find their way to the hands of our protagonists.

 

* The climax of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' features a train carrying miner's wages being robbed.

* ''[[Heartbeat]]'' has featured several train robberies. Apparently the branch lines of 1960s Yorkshire were Britain's answer to the Wild West.

* In the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series, in keeping with his Western motif, the villain Shame pulls a train job.

* ''[[Michael Bentine's Potty Time|Michael Bentines Potty Time]]'' had an epsiode that retold one of the train robberies from the [[American Civil War]], using puppets.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]: The Ballad of Gay Tony'' has you jump atop an El Train in order to steal it. ''The whole train car.''

* ''[[Red Dead Revolver]]'' had a level where you had to take out the bandits robbing a train.

* The sixth level of the second ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game featured Sly and company pulling off a trio of train robberies.

* Even ''[[Star Wars]]'' gets one in [[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Academy]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode, "Over a Barrel", begins with one.

* For reasons that are never really explained, Rojo and her crew are attempting to rob a train in the ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' episode "Hit 'Em Where They Live".

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

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