Railway rifle (Fallout 4)

The railway rifle is a weapon in Fallout 4.
==Background==
A model that is a product of Tinker Tom's engineering (although at least one seems to have existed before the Great War), the railway rifle shoots railway spikes at lethal velocities.Fallout 4 loading screens: "The Railway Rifle is a rare, custom-made weapon that shoots railway spikes at such a high velocity, they can sever body parts and pin them to walls."Railroad HQ terminal entries; Tinker Tom's terminal, Field test log During development there were issues with its cooling unit, and liquid nitrogen was eventually used to decrease the reload time.
==Characteristics==
The railway rifle fires railway spikes as projectiles in the same manner as an air rifle. These are rarely found as ammunition, but are cheap to buy and can be recovered from enemies slain using the weapon. In exchange, the railway rifle has become enormously more powerful from its last iteration while retaining its ability to do extreme damage to limbs—sometimes even pinning detached ones to walls. 
The railway rifle is most effective in VATS at close to mid ranges, although its range is somewhat increased from its last incarnation and can be greatly increased with modifications. The reason that the rifle is more effective in V.A.T.S. is that the nails seems to have a slight travel time which makes it harder to hit enemies further away. This travel time reduces the efficiency of the railway rifle as a sniper weapon. However, a scoped railway rifle can still be a devastating sniper weapon for use against unaware enemies because of its massive damage output.
In addition, a train whistle sound effect can be heard when reloading the weapon.
===Weapon modifications===
==Variants==
* Prototype railway rifle
==Locations==
* Big John's Salvage - inside a shelter, which is in a blue overturned railway car just behind the house. In order to enter the shelter's trapdoor, the power must be switched on. The power switch is near the automobile-powered main gate to the salvage yard, attached to a power cable that runs to the blue railway car. After hitting the switch, access the trapdoor by jumping on top of the car. There is a fuse box to turn on between the buildings before the door will activate. It is at ground level. Follow the black power cable.
* Potential reward for completing the Railroad quest Underground Undercover and starting Precipice of War.
* Bedford Station - Inside a blue railway car attached to a locomotive. Appears at level 20. 
* Carried by Desdemona during the quest Tactical Thinking.
* Carried by generic Railroad agents.
* Tinker Tom occasionally sells one railway rifle.
==Notes==
* Railway rifles only spawn when the Sole Survivor is above level 20, with the exception of one found at Big John's Salvage and one carried by Desdemona during the quest Tactical Thinking.
* The railway rifle was brought back from Fallout 3, and shares a similar appearance to the original.
* The limb-pinning effect affects heads. Also, pinning does not always happen in outdoor areas. In V.A.T.S. the camera will follow the flying limb or head for quite a while before giving up.
* Very often there are spikes stuck in walls and bodies after a fight. These spikes are irretrievable.
* The rifle appears to be semi-automatic since the Sole Survivor doesn't cock it before or after each shot.
* Railway spikes can be retrieved from the corpse of a hostile target.
* Completion of the quest "Underground Undercover" will add legendary variants of the railway rifle as loot on legendary enemies.
** The console command will enable them to be looted if one cannot, or does not wish to, complete this quest.
* The standard receiver for the railway rifle is mislabelled as the automatic piston receiver in the console.
* The rifle has a capacity of 10 spikes but the Sole Survivor will always load 5 spikes into it while reloading.
* In first-person view, the player character holds the railway rifle with their left hand gripping the barrel, but in third-person the left hand will grip the underside area of the gun's receiver.
==Gallery==
FO4 Railway Rifle Loc.jpg|Location at Bedford Station
Fo4 Railway rifle BHS.jpg|Big John's Salvage's bunker
FO4 Railway Rifle loading screen.jpg|Loading screen slide
Art_of_FO4_Railway_Rifle.jpg|From The Art of Fallout 4
==References==
Category:Fallout 4 weapons
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