D&D 5E What size category is a locomotive?

[Zardnaar]

I've watched Dumbo. In it, the elephants are transported in train cars.

The train is bigger than an elephant.

High quality facts of life right here on ENworld folks!!!

 

[Nefermandias]

Are you wondering whether you can suplex it?

A man of culture, I see.

 

[Eltab]

A 35-ton diesel locomotive - legally too small to run on normal right-of-way with a train but useable by a factory to move individual cars back and forth within plant property - would be a little bigger than a UPS or Amazon delivery van.

The standard distance between the rails in US is 4 ft 8 in. The width of the cars would be 5 or 6 feet. During the Wild West era, boxcars were 36 - 40 feet long.

 

[mrpopstar]

Doesn't Eberron feature a lightning rail? Maybe there's something there you can use as a guide?

 

[Dioltach]

It depends whether you're talking about Gordon and Henry, or Percy and Thomas.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

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If it weren't so much work for single combat, I would use a model train on the battle grid and have slowly but surely encircled the opponent. <eg>

It depends on which scale locomotive you're using.

 

[Ancalagon]

This is starting to sound a lot like "purple worm big"

 

[J.Quondam]

This is starting to sound a lot like "purple worm big"

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Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[Imaculata]

I looked through D20 Modern, D20 Past, D20 Call of Cthulhu... and not one of these books thought of including any train as a vehicle. I am both surprised and disappointed.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

On a related, but more important question; which size category is a forklift?