Line inspection cars

These are little steam machines that are very fast, and can be sent to the front or back of the train. This menu can be accessed by clicking on the character to the right on the General Quarters screen.

This menu proposes two choices for you: the sending of a simple single inspection cart and the sending of a line inspection cart with a missile. (These are the same missiles as those used by the missile launcher wagon). Obviously, you have to possess a line inspection cart, and a missile for the second choice, which may be purchased in certain trading towns. Then you have to decide the direction of the line inspection cart: either in front of the train or at the back of it. The line inspection cart will then leave the screen, and you can follow its path until it explodes.

If it stops gradually before exploding, this means that is has met nothing along the track, unless it has gone over a minefield or crashed into an obstacle, that is an enemy train, or a barricade set up by underground barbaric people. The sending of the line inspection cart thus makes it possible to test the tracks, to see whether an enemy is there, cause him significant damage and delay his progress.

Take care – a bomb line inspection cart returning to the Transarctica is very bad news.

Of course, each use consumes a single line inspection car.