Meresti Trainyard

 is an old trainyard which can be used to easily access The Family's nest.

Location
Location three squares east from Arefu.

Outside
You will find several abandoned, rusty old trains outside the entrance to the tunnels. You may have a random encounter here. You may encounter a small group of raiders camped out there or alternatively a scavenger in possession of Deathclaw Gauntlet schematics in combat with a Deathclaw. Directly south of is a cluster of homes not on the map. Nothing of horrible interest besides the safes, Tumblers Today (can be found in a bath in ruins of one of the houses) and a couple of pilot lights. 2 Protectrons (or Robobrains) have been seen to patrol there. Sometimes (This happened to me once on the XBOX 360 version) A Dead goul will fall from the sky wearing a Chinese officers uniform and wielding a Chinese officers sword and a Chinese pistol. When the player looks at him it labels him as "Dead Chinese Commando".

Inside
The tunnels leading to The Family's hideout are accessed through the door located alongside the building at. There is a scavenger permanently parked there on the tunnel next to The Family's tunnel selling mainly wasteland clothing, weapons, and a handful of stimpacks. Inside the tunnel are several traps including several mines, beartraps, a pitching machine activated by a tripwire and a booby-trapped baby carriage.

Notable Loot

 * Nothing of interest topside, but Tumblers Today in the service tunnel.

Location Note
This may not be a permanent thing, as I haven't had a chance to double-check it with a second run-through, but looking up from Meresti during the day, a group of buzzards continually circles above the entry tunnels. If this is a permanent effect, it would prove quite useful for spotting the trainyard from a distance.

Confirmed, buzzards sighted at 19:14 game time.

Confirmed buzzards when dead corpse is located at site. I have encountered the buzzards at Meresti Trainyard with a pack of Vicious Dogs (random) that killed a wastelander or the chem dealing wastelander. The corpse has nothing useful, except a lead pipe. If the chem dealer has died, you will only find a Med-X, Rad-X and RadAway. (various amounts)

Alien Power Cells

 * Once after I came out of the trainyard there was an explosion from above and alien power cells were all over. This is a random event and has only happened to me once. (That is a random event that seems to be most likely at Meresti. See the Firelance article for more information.)


 * Confirmed... Meresti Trainyard is among the most common sites for the alien crash random event. Over the course of four play-throughs, I encountered the event here twice.