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.

The gun fires Railway Spikes at enemies. It is fairly good at crippling body parts in a single shot when it hits and is capable of impaling body parts and affixing them to surfaces, it will ONLY do this on a killing blow, and it won't do it every time, it seems to be about a 1 in 10 chance.

The Railway Rifle doesn't stand up as a real weapon, slow rate of fire, inaccuracy, and curiously low armor penetration. One good thing is that ammo is easy to come by, so if you're running low it'll make a good back up, but not a good weapon to rely on.

Like the Shishkebab, obtaining more than one copy of the schematics will update the plans to "Railway Rifle - v2", which has the added benefit of +10% damage. Three copies updates it to v3(MAX) and +20% 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 Laszlo 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.