Boxcars

Boxcars is an ex-powder ganger living in Nipton in 2281.

Background
Boxcars was a criminal who ended up in Nipton to kidnap some New California Republic soldiers. Instead, he found Caesar's Legion who forced him and the other townspeople of Nipton to enter a lottery. The winner got to live while Boxcars got second place where he was crippled. The losers were killed along with Nipton's mayor Joseph B. Steyn.

You can give him Med-X for positive karma, up to 5 doses.

If you kill Boxcars, you will fail the Wheel of Fortune quest. However, you will receive positive Karma.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * If you shoot Boxcars he will stand up and fight back, even though he is crippled.
 * If you kill him and return at a later time, he will sometimes be alive again. He will be sitting on the chair, and not hostile, with the same dialogue options as before.