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reference to Boston Underground?--dotz 17:12, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

"Underground" railroad[]

Just for clarity's sake, though the Underground Railroad may have had some underground 'stations' (secret areas in people's houses to hide escaped slaves) there was not, to my knowledge, any underground route for the slaves to take from station to station.

There were not, just as there was no physical railroad that was used. The name's purely metaphorical, the "underground" part referring to the secretive nature of it as it was illegal.

Other Members[]

Where are the other members of the railroad mentioned? I can't find any dialogue options with Victoria.

I'm pretty sure the Lone Wanderer should count as an optional member, since, if you complete "The Replicated Man" in their favor, you're told you can consider yourself "a member in good standing." --Godzillafan93 01:55, January 21, 2017 (UTC)

Companions[]

Does anyone happen to know some of the companions opinions of the railroad such as the ones who are not associated with any specific faction, such as Cait, Curie, Robert Joseph MacCready, or Codsworth? Cait is verbally anti-synth. I don't recall MacCready ever saying anything related to synths but he does like when you side with Shaun/destroy the Railroad. Curie and Codsworth like the Railroad, I'd presume.

Fanmade logo[]

RailroadLogoComparison — Clockwise from top right: in-game "painted railroad logo" graffiti texture, in-game map marker, in-game flag texture, the current page image.

Back off the trail of my noticing our Minutemen infobox image was recreated using clipart from google rather than the actual in-game textures, I was reminded that the image on this page suffers from a similar problem.

The logo currently shown in the infobox does not appear anywhere in the game; it's an edited version of the fast travel marker for the Railroad HQ with some overlapping ovals in the center added based on the design in their flag texture, which uses a completely differently-shaped lantern. Furthermore there's graffiti in the game referred to as their "logo" in the game files that uses a totally different lantern symbol; neither the flag nor fast travel logo is ever used in their graffiti.

I appreciate the artistic effort and interest in creating a cool "clean" logo for the faction but generally the purpose of the wiki should be to show off accurate and official content. -- DirtyBlue929 (talk) 19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)