I thought folks here might appreciate this upcoming game, Loco Motive. The tone and graphic style is very different from Nancy Drew, but it looks like a hoot. And it's ON A TRAIN.
https://youtu.be/85hvVsHZws8
I live in a big eastern-european city of more than 2 million people closer to the outskirts of it. The area is pretty quiet, but you can never escape the hum of the big city, it is truly omnipresent.
Every once in a while I just hear trains, the sound of wheels, horns, all that stuff. It usually happens at night, after midnight. The periodicity of it varies quite a lot: sometimes I hear it every few weeks, sometimes it disappears for several months. The sound is not long lasting too, it usually lasts for around 10 minutes, sometimes a bit longer. I have talked to a friend of mine, who loves near by, and he answered, that he has never experienced anything like that, but noted, that he usually keeps his window shut. I have tried to record it, but the sound is too subtle for my phone's mic to pick up. And I know I'm not hallucinating, because the noise always disappears, when I close the windows in the room I'm at, and reappears when I open them, just like the regular city buzz.
What is more, I remember several years ago, when I still went to school, one day I left my house a bit earlier, around 7 am, and was walking along a quiet street, I distinctly heard a loud metallic voice say some gibberish, which sounded just like a typical announcement at the trainstation. This stuff really caught me off guard.
I have studied the map of my city. There are no factories and no warehouses in my area, and the closest train tracks run through the middle of the city several kilometres away, and are separated by lots and lots of parks and high-rise buildings, so I doubt I would've been able to hear trains pass there as distinct as I can now.
My family owns a house in the countryside, and it stands about 1.5 km(1 mile) of empty fields away from the nearest train tracks, so you can hear trains passing by. And the sound I experience at home is louder than that. Take into consideration that it is occuring in the city, it is absurdly loud.
So, has anyone experienced anything like that?
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What is the deal with John Menards and his trains? I have heard some crazy stories and have been warned on my first day as an assistant in Hardware to never inventory them. The Inventory lead at my store made that mistake and was emailed by GO not long after. Post below your stories and theories behind the Great Train Mystery.
Platform(s): PC
Genre: no clue
Estimated year of release: 2014-2016
Graphics/art style: cartoonish very simple like roblox
Notable characters: i don’t remember any names but i think the main characters name starts with a P?
Notable gameplay mechanics: you take a pill to go somewhere on a mission and every time you complete it you end up in the same room with an old dude who gives you more to solve more mysteries or something like that. their voices were also kind of weird/robotic
Other details: when you start off in the game you start in a train station and you walk down into a room and it’s a waiting room and the secretary told you to wait until the door opens and you sit in a room with an old dude who points to a chalkboard and shows you a mission and then you take a pill that he gives you and you get transported to another place then near the end of the game you have to catch a pig and then put it on like a rotating thing over a fire and then opens up like a secret passage and you go inside it and it’s like a simulation like you’re trying to escape like a simulation type of place and it’s all like weird and computer and crap. oh and I just remembered you’re at the start of the game I think you’re in like some Japan place and you have to poison some guys sushi and then when he goes to the toilet he dies and you collect some thing from him I bet he’s like exploded on the toilet. it was kinda popular on youtube and i remember watching a youtuber called zach scott games play it
https://imgur.com/a/UFOXHUH here’s an image that i could create to the best of my ability. this is what the characters in the game looked like but the bottom of their arms were more curved
I live near the Coryton Line. It's a very dull line. Two trains, one or two carriages each, heading each way an hour. All very dull.
Except every now and then, there is something different. A freight train, going past and then fifteen minutes later (presumably after getting to the end of the line) it heads back the other way.
I finally got a good look at it tonight, and the freight was three Network Rail branded liquid tanks.
Now I can't understand why they would take some tanks up and down the Coryton Line for no reason, using two full freight engines.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is some form of odd conspiracy and am certain the answer is going to be very dull, but I'm really curious!
The Lady Vanishes has great trademark Hitchcock suspense! It builds from the calm of the toy-like miniature alpine village sets at the beginning, growing with each bit of minor betrayal and deception.
Love Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. She’s an heiress! He’s a penniless folklorist! And Dame May Whitty. She’s a little old lady!
Pluses: they’re in a train!!! with cricket aficionados, a mysterious nun, magic tricks, and slapstick fisticuffs.
If you're interested in the political ramifications, this Guardian article goes into them: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/dec/29/film
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We used to have a lokalbahn appearantly
apologies for the vagueness. i saw this book on display in a library ~3-4 years ago but i only got as far as reading the synopsis. it was a hardcover book and the cover art was black and white of a train coming around the side of a mountain and the artistic style was similar to a very nicely detailed pencil sketch. i believe that it was a mystery novel, maybe involving a murder, but again my memory is foggy...
I have two tickets (worth $150) to Mystery Spot and Roaring camp toy train in Santa Cruz tomorrow afternoon. A change of plans, and i want someone else to have fun in my place.
My preference are
- couples madly in love, or trying to get there Or
- a parent wanting to give their kid a good time
Message me with your story :)
This is for tomorrow afternoon.
Platform(s): PC, played it on an old Sony VAIO before
Genre: Detective, Mystery
Estimated year of release: Around the 2010s
Graphics/art style: A bit realistic and it's quite similar to Nancy Drew
Notable characters: I don't have a memory on this, I'm kinda sure it's a girl protagonist
Notable gameplay mechanics: Puzzle solving , scourge around a train to find more clues / to solve puzzles
Other details: More on the bottom
I recall playing this game in the 2010s, before 2014 because I moved from my old house and never played it since, I'd do anything to experience this game again!I have really tried my best to find the game itself but I have found myself a dead end
Details are :The start of the game needs you to find a way into a guarded train at a station, I remember having to put firecrackers inside a trashbin and light it up so that a guard goes check it and that would leave a cabin unattended, leaving you access to board the train.
Once you board the train, I have memories of stuff around in the train, there was an aquarium with 2 fighting fish , each is red and blue, I think there was a key in the aquarium so that you could access other cabins? Pretty sure the aquarium was in a bar cabin too.
I'm very sorry but all I remember is some puzzle machine being hidden in a different cabin and you needed to find stuff around the whole train to solve that puzzle , I really appreciate any comments and I really want to play this game again!
It's not a Nancy Drew game but as how you play the game with all the detective thingy going around and stuff I'd say it's based on it?
Sorry if you got confused reading, English isn't my first language.
10 years later and still no answer to the “Would you, could you, on a train?” public emergency broadcast hack on WKTV.
Context: On September 28th (yesterday), a public EAS broadcastshowed up on the screens of viewers watching WKTV. It was initially believed to be a test, until FEMA revealed no broadcast was sent out. The broadcast was hacked. The next day, 10 years ago today, a train supposed to pull into Hobroken Station, New Jersey, didn’t stop, going full speed into a wall, killing one and injuring 114. To this day it is unknown what has happened. Possibly a coincidence, possibly an attack. Since, the internet has gone crazy with conspiracy theories and whatnot about the events. Allow us to remember the soul who was lost that day.
