The L13 Steam Locomotive

Designed by Ray Robertson after too many weeks playing the train set J. P. Withers sent him for Christmas, the L13 is a Bureau-built juggernaught. The single "steam" engine actually runs on powerful Object Animation spells including: Complex Animation, Complex Decision Making, and Self Preservation. The train almost has a mind of its own and the engineer does little more than direct the engine along the tracks. Hidden under the camouflage of its normal looking cars is an assortment of Bureau equipment. The L13 functions as a mobile supply dump, hospital, holding facility, and command center. It is often used to deliver new vehicles to mobile teams and carries a pair of small (yet robust) nuclear missiles in one car (just in case).

Breakdown by car:

• Engine :
• Controlled by simple lever control to guide the locomotive along the tracks that criss-cross America.
• Top speed is 115 MPH, cruising speed 60 MPH
• Armor rating is 12000
• "Coal Car" :
• Actually filled with coal just in case the animation spells ever fail. (Supernaturally strong agents are cautioned that squeezing heated coal does not make diamonds but does make quite a mess.)
• Armor rating is 8000
• Passenger Car :
• Used as a R&R lounge by any agents traveling on the train
• Well stocked bar and television connected to satellite systems (free HBO)
• Armor rating is 10000 (painted to look like normal metal walls)
• Sleeping Car :
• Just what it claims to be, a car filled with sleeping bunks for the agents who travel and for visiting/recuperating agents
• Armor rating is 10000
• Freight Car 1 :
• Behind its "BOBCO" exterior lies a Bureau Mobile Hospital stocked with medical supplies, a doctor and 3 nurses
• This car has a slide away roof panel so that patients may be air-lifted in or out while the train is in motion.
• Armor rating 10000
• Freight Car 2 :
• Contains a small laboratory for examination of item or people
• Contains carbon dating equipment, Electromagnetic spectrographs, X-ray, Kirlian Detectors, blood analyzer, DNA sequencer (takes a while to run a complete work-up)
• Contains a 6x6x6 environmentally controlled room for subjects that need special care.
• Armor rating is 10000
• Freight Car 3 :
• Carries a supply dump's worth of equipment for restocking agents on the go
• Armor rating is 10000
• Freight Car 4 :
• Command center that can be used to Coordinate operations of agents and local law enforcement or military personel
• Often used to insert cover identities into local computer databases
• Has a direct link to Bureau HQ in Bangor as well as to the Bureau satellites
• Armor rating is 12000 with EMP Hardening
• Freight Car 5 :
• Two nuclear tipped missiles with a 1500 mile range
• Warheads rated at 50 kilotons each
• Requires authorization codes from Horace Gordon (Director of Bureau 13) and 2 other agents of level XIII security to launch
• Armor rating is 12000
• Freight Car 6 :
• Assault car that contains machine-guns, flame-throwers, and lasers mounted on retractable tripods that can be used to protect the train
• Can be detonated to destroy evidence or nasty prisoners in case of emergency
• Armor rating is 12000
• Freight Car 7 :
• Used to transport Bureau vehicles to teams along its route
• Armor rating is 12000
• Caboose :
• Holding facility used to contain hostile organisms for transport to Bangor holding facility
• Car is lined with explosives, warding runes and is plated with Iron, Lead, Silver, Wood, and Ivy to contain its guests
• Escapes will be met with deadly force in the form of triggered spells, lasers and, if need be, detonation of the car
• Has ports for the insertion of quick drying cement (more than one caboose now resides at the bottom of the Pacific) for permanent restraint
• Armor rating is 10000

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