Railway Rifle (Fallout 3)



The Railway Rifle is a Fallout 3 weapon. It is one of the weapons that can be assembled from Schematics found in the game world. It falls into the Small Guns category.

It fires Railway Spikes at enemies, and is capable of impaling body parts and affixing them to surfaces. The gun emits a train whistle sound when fired. Its ammo is very convenient to find, as the railway spikes it fires is found across the game world, especially in train stations. The railway rifle is also very good at crippling body parts in a single shot when it hits. It is not effective against robots or heavily armored opponents, fully repaired with 100 in small guns, it does comical damage. Coupled with it's rather slow rate of fire and relative inaccuracy, it's best kept as a rather funny toy. This weapon also has the ability to shoot through multiple enemies (possibly only 2).

Like the Shishkebab, obtaining more than one copy of the schematics will update the plans to "Railway Rifle - V.2", which has the added benefit of +10% damage. The same parts are required.

Components:
 * Fission Battery
 * Pressure Cooker
 * Steam Gauge Assembly
 * Railway Rifle Schematic
 * Crutch

Easy-to-find component locations:
 * Fission Battery: RoboCo Plant, Robot Repair Center
 * Pressure Cooker: Minefield Homes, Super-Duper Mart
 * Steam Gauge Assembly: Minefield Homes, Super-Duper Mart, RoboCo Plant, Robot Repair Center, Bethesda Offices West
 * Crutch: Minefield Homes, Pinkerton's lab, Our Lady of Hope Hospital, Hamilton's Hideaway (In Bandit Room)

Schematic Locations:
 * Tulip (General Goods Vendor) Underworld
 * Control Room (On the Workbench) MDPL-13 Power Station
 * Reward for Stealing Independence from Abraham Washington

Appearances
Railway Rifle appears only in Fallout 3.

Found Laslo Radford carrying the Railway Rifle right next to the Anchorage War Memorial.

Laszlo also appears nearby the AntAgonizer's lair and can be randomly encountered in places, just like Mel and other random NPC encounters.