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[Flying Mullet]

Perhaps it was a tourist train that departed Doma Castle, provided a tour of the Phantom Forest and stopped at Baron Falls to turn around, then headed back to Doma Castle.

[NeoCracker]

Originally Posted by Crossblades ^

Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryûkishi ^

Originally Posted by Crossblades ^

Originally Posted by quote from the FF VI game

Cyan: I thought all of Doma's railways had been destroyed in the fighting...

And he would know! And it wouldn't make much sense for there to be a train station in the middle of a dense forest, anyway .

Sure it would. The railway could've linked from the kingdom to the forest.

Adviser: King, we must build a railroad through this forest.

King: But why would we do that, there isn't anything through that forest but a waterfall.

Adivser: Trust me sir, this is singly the greatest advantage our kingdom could have at any given time. We MUST build this railroad.

King: I don't know, it's not like theres anyone that way to trade with, and there are not military advantages.

Adivoser: No Military advantages? But it would make the perfect escape route.

King: To where, a location where the enemy can trap us between dense forest and a waterfall.

Adviser: Exactly, they will be so confused by our move they will run away in fear of a trap!

King: That plan sucks.

Adviser: Fine, how about this then. If you have a personal railway heading through that forest, you can quickly dispose of bodies by throwing them over the waterfall, and no one will be able to see the bodies you hide inside the train.

King: Make it so.

*Five hours later*

Kefka: I trust you managed to steal all the kings funds?

Adviser: No, the vault was to well guarded. Instead I convinced the king to make a railroad through the near by forest.

Kefka: But what good does that do him?

Advisor: None at all.

Kefka: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Stabs adviser*

[blackmage_nuke]

The above post should have been the play they used in the opera house.

Originally Posted by Flying Mullet ^

Cyan: A train's there!? But I thought Doma's railway had been
destroyed...?
Sabin: May be survivors inside. Let's take a look.

After closer examination its possible that Doma's railway was destroyed and the phantom train is a different railway completely. If it really was the haunted remnants of the old railway, then how did souls get to the other side before the fighting.

[Blue Harvest]

If I remember correctly, after boarding the phantom train Cyan suddenly realises what it is. Therefore it existed all along and wasn't the railway that was destroyed in the fighting.

[Necronopticous]

You guys are overthinking it, I seriously doubt Square even has an official answer.

It's just a haunted railway in which a particularly cool scene takes place; whether or not it has a history before the events of the game is beyond the game's canon.

[scrumpleberry]

I think there's probably a lot which is psychological to do with it, and the tracks are probably real, although if they were orignally there or not, I'm not sure. Aside from that, I don't really know.

Maybe the train fancied a snack so it picked the crew up along the way to Valhalla.

[Blue Harvest]

Has anyone else noticed that after you 'beat' the train it drops you off exactly where it picked you up?

[Wuggly Blight]

We all know in a game it doesnt show you every single town that actually exists in its world ans the towns it shows are never the full real size, and its world is far larger in its reality then what it shows in you game, to the people it wouldn't take a 4 second walk to cross the world but months in the wilderness with no roads and monsters. Tzen was a Kingdom with its own monarchy before the game and you never see the trace of there castle.
You can already see the need for a train service. There was probably alot of small towns in the kingdom it connected that was destoryed or not shown in game. It may of connected the kingdom to others and the outside.