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

[Shades of Eternity]

I'm not sure how big is big.

I remember that in 3e Colossal was essentially the size of a tractor trailer or motor home and seeing if it still applies.

How big would be a train engine (and bonus points if its determined that adding rail cars increases its size ranking?)

 

[abirdcall]

Are you wondering whether you can suplex it?

 

[Shades of Eternity]

You mean you cannot?

edit. and while I'm at it, how do you do movement on a circular track on a square grid?

 

[Lanefan]

I'll put this under the category of "questions I didn't expect to read today"...

As for an answer: no idea. Big.

 

[NaturalZero]

I was a freight conductor and I've been next to an elephant at the zoo. The train is bigger than an elephant.

 

[Dausuul]

5E doesn't have Colossal. Anything bigger than Huge is considered Gargantuan. A locomotive would certainly qualify.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

found this to answer my 2nd question.

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my concept is inverting the bank robbers trope by having bank robbers drive a train and then unload on a town, steal what they can and leave

Trying to simulate how to do broadside canons in dnd (as they will be on a car between the engines).

This might have been influenced by the old video games of metal slug.

edit: also any crazy ideas of pretending a train is a pirate ship are welcomed as well (the bandits are pirate cosplayers).

 

[Stormonu]

Depends on the the train. A 0-4-2 (that's the wheel count, this would be a Disney-sized train) would easily be Huge, while a 2-8-0 (your typical wild west movie train) would be Gargantuan (there's bigger trains, but they're for hauling coal up and down mountains). Most boxcars are 50' long (actually 55-60', so 11-12 grid squares long), and passenger cars can be up to 80' long (16 grid squares long).

 

[embee]

It depends on which scale locomotive you're using.

 

[embee]

I was a freight conductor and I've been next to an elephant at the zoo. The train is bigger than an elephant.

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

The train is bigger than an elephant.