Railway Rifle (Fallout 3)



The Railway Rifle is a craftable weapon in Fallout 3.

Caution
It should be noted that while VATS glitches aren't uncommon, the Railway Rifle, specifically, has roughly a 6% chance of completely crashing your game with every shot, freezing the screen and causing the controller to vibrate violently until the console is turned off. This bug affects both the XBox 360 and PC versions. It can cause freezing glitches in the PS3 version of this game. UPDATE: Turns out the rifle can crash the game while firing in free-aim mode as well.

Components
Once you have the schematics, you will need a workbench and one each of the following items:

Easy-to-find component locations
You can find all components in Fort Constantine
 * 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, Metro Tunnels
 * Crutch: Minefield Homes, Pinkerton's lab, Our Lady of Hope Hospital, Hamilton's Hideaway (In Bandit Room), drainage chamber to SE of Signal Oscar Zulu
 * You can also find everything in one of the rooms in Super Duper Mart.

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.

Laszlo Radford uses the Railway Rifle, he is a random encounter who can be found at any random place in the wastelands at any random time.

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

At Lvl 18+ you have a 2% chance of encountering a Talon Company Merc Carrying a Railway Rifle.

At Lvl 1-13, there is a random encounter near arlington cemetary where you will meet a man named Grayson Nichols who is carrying a railway rifle, he will run to you and ask for your help and will imediatly get shot by a super mutant. you can then take the rifle from his corpse and then be on your way. Note:there is 119 spikes/ammo for the gun.

Glitches
The reloading animation for this weapon only shows the Wanderer placing one Spike into the chamber, yet it will load up to 8.

MAJOR GLITCH: It has been observed by multiple players on different consoles that using the Railway Rifle, especially with VATS can result in freezing.

NOTE: If you ever chose to visit the small settlement of Andale, make sure not to use the Railway Rifle if you chose to destroy the town. Doing so may result in your console freezing up, even without V.A.T.S., if a shot directed at cannibalistic inhabitant Linda Smith. It also may corrupt you current file, which is a good reason to keep AutoSave ON.