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.

Talking to Boxcars will get you the Booted quest.

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

Killing Boxcars after receiving the Booted quest, will cause you to fail the mission

Even though he says he is crippled if you engage him in combat he will turn hostile and fight back with his fists standing up in the process, he then will proceed to run away once on low health.

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.
 * Sometimes when you re-enter the building he will get up off his chair and start swimming around the building in mid-air.