ok they pull into town and it takes a good hour or two to unload the cars they have to and grab new ones. during this time u have plenty of time to scope out the lil bit of town u can see from the train yard (it isnt much but a lil bit)
the town look ok as far as no buildings are on fire or knocked down or rubble everywhere like the last town but it does look like they might be under marshal law or something. u dont see many people out and about and at the outskirts of the town u see defensive structures set up and manned as well. it looks like they are ready for war but it hasnt come this way as of yet.
its pretty crazy because the towns are the only areas that look war torn or whatever the country side looks peaceful and serine, but u get near a town and it looks like hell is ready to open up any sec. now the two guys on the train act as if there is nothing going on but them doing their jobs and dont seem to notice anything going on outside of their train.
just as u guys are getting ready to pull out of town the sirens in town go off and the guys grab the controls and punch them full bore. one yells u know were supos to stop if the sirens come on and the other guy says he is not going to get stuck in this town or any other for that matter, if u want to stop then jump off. he dont and they get the train going as fast as they can. right on the outside of the town u see two guys in their fox holes waving at the train but they only blow their horn and fly right on threw. the first guy says that there will be hell to pay for this and the other guy says fine i'll pay the hell later rather than now.
about five miles outside of town u see a huge sign that clears the trees off to one side of the tracks, it looks like one of the signs u see on freeway off ramps now days for gas companies or whatnot. but on the top of the sign u see the symbol for the tech priests churchs. as soon as u see it u look to the guys and they tell u that off in the woods that direction was a large priest compound but the last they heard it had been bombed. u look that direction and even if u wanted to get off they are going way too fast to jump off. the one that has always stuck up for u tells u their next stop there is another church for ur order and if u want to go there they can try to get u directions that is if u want to go. u look in ur papers and dont see that one marked anly the one ur heading towards already so u dont know about this new one they are talking about
about 3 hours after leaving town they slow the train back down to normal speeds. they tell u that the straight track is about up there are curves ahead and they dont want to wreck going as fast as they were. they turn on the radio and try to get some news about attacks on the last town.
as u guys are sitting there listing to the radio u hear a loud pop and see a blast of smoke come from the exhaust and the train starts to slow down some. u see the driver look at his gauges and says he dont see anything wrong all the levels are where they are sup to be. the other tells him to switch to the electric motors and put the desiel into nuteral and have ur tech-y guy go look at it. he does that and the train slows down real fast to about 25 mph and he asks u to come with him. he walks out and opens the panel to the motor and goes in u follow and look it over
lets get three percentage rolls to fig it out and three more to try and fix it