Commonwealth Cartography | The Railroad 

I think that Carringtons prototype is likely a stealth boy upgrade. Several quests later, after you complete memories interrupted, Tinker Tom adds, "railroad stealth boy" to his shop stock, which is an improved stealth boy.

"Ah the Great Green Jewel. Be careful of the guards, some of them are assholes, others are just Deacon." R4-04 from Tales of the Commonwealth

I always figured synth retention left the railroad tapes around the institute as a fishing expedition trying to flush out sympathizers.

For Railroad sympathizers I would add the merchant Opal. She's the one near the top of the buildings west of the Custom House. At the alley leading up to her location there's a RR safehouse symbol. Her location also has some turrets that aren't automatically hostile.

I feel the only important details left out I would have liked are railroad caches and the scattered coded railroad signs (some locations are marked "dangerous") that could paint a picture of a "heat map" of railroad operations.

I feel like bioscience has the tapes because they may be slightly sympathetic to the railroad. They work with more than human synths so they would have a different perspective of it, but as for the holotapes being in the trash, Ayo has searched rooms before so if he found those tapes in the trash it would be less suspicious. Ayo very well may be the reason why any railroad sympathizers won't speak up.

If you get booted from the institute before the institute attacks highrise's home then he will be alive for and the safe house will never be infiltrated.

one thing i would add is that the minutemen are the only faction that don't want to destroy the railroad, also if you get caught working for the railroad at the institute Desdemona says you should work with the minutemen implying that they have some sort of alliance between them, another thing that backs up my case is that Sturges is a synth (if you console command him to die he has a synth component on his body) and has apparently had there mind wiped and has no knowledge of him being a synth

As a General of the Minutemen, someone has to plant the tatos!

47:05 Trinity Tower and Mass Fusion are also two of the most dangerous locations in downtown Boston, so it is likely that Tinker Tom or someone else in the Railroad deliberately avoided these locations. Trinity Tower has a very large super mutant presence. Mass Fusion has gunners positions outside the front door.

The Railroad have it rough. They get understandable hate from the Institute, but they also get it from the Commonwealth because of the widespread fear of synths. It’s almost impossible for them to succeed!

Re-using code names for the safehouses is really stupid. Those names are already known and would set off alarms if they're heard in conversations around the commonwealth. Someone using a known code name marks themselves as an affiliate of the Railroad and invites investigation by the Institute. It's no wonder they've lost so much over the years, even ignoring the Institute's widespread use of bird watchers.

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Could the "Beast" safehouse be the secret open room on top of Diamond City? Since the wall is called the Monster?

In the next Fallout, whenever that gets released, I really hope we can find synths that have been "rescued" and exfiltrated from the Commonwealth.

48:59 Does anyone else think this map looks a bit like the Big Dipper constellation? It's probably a coincidence, but I know the Big Dipper (or "The Drinking Gourd") was pretty significant in the efforts of real world runaway slaves.

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Your cartography series is nifty. Always a great listen. Thank you for your continued content creation.

"And the minutemen are off planting Tatos or something" Actually, why ARENT the MM at the Battle of Bunker hill??

The Railroad could have been SO COOL if they did it right. They need to be greatly expanded, more missions more safehouses, more cool quests. It could have worked sooooo much better than it does. I'm pissed off by the missed potential. Also the Railroad theme absolutely slaps.

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Fantastic series! It would be possible to do a cartography series also for Fo3/New Vegas?😍

I grabbed the game about a month ago and i am still amazed how much content there is to the lore, between RadKing, oxhorn and others, still being published to this day and i love it to bits

Talking about how many agents there are at Bunker Hill during the battle in a cut debriefing with Des she says the the Railroad hired some mercenaries to pad their numbers.

Yes please tell the insti- the viewer all the bases.

"Here we are, at our new deathhouse" "You mean safehouse?" "Sure..."

Hopefully we get more of this series but on the other games. Cartography of fallout nv, or maybe even the originals would be cool

One of the possible locations for the mercer safehouse mission is spectacle island which always made me think that the railroad has some boats stashed somewhere that they use to move synths/agents around, possibly up to acadia or other coastal areas

Really enjoy your deep dives, excellent work and we always learn more about the lore with every video. Still playing FO4 after all these years and still learning new things thanks to you and the few other folks willing to put so much time into learning and explaining the lore to the rest of us. Atom's Glow be with you!

Old Man Stockton must not have been too terribly important to Railroad operations. I recently found a pile of ash in front of BADTFL named "Old Man Stockton". I suspect he died when the Mechanist storyline kicked off, which was several weeks ago in-game. None of the railroad agents or administrators have made any comments about this or the need to find an alternate receiver.

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Ah the infamous Battle of Bunker Hill, where you can walk through the 3 way battle without firing a shot. In fact i would go as far as to recommend not firing at all and just progress to whatever objective you decide on. Always seemed poorly implemented to me. I guess bethesda was crunched for time and figured it was close enough

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one thing I'm surprised that isnt added to this map are the railroad signs scattered over the map that tell those in the know alittle about that location, such as danger, ally or cache. they're similar to how the theives guild in skyrim have shadowmarks in a similiar system of symbols like thieves cant theres even one such symbol on a location overlooking vault 111 it would be intereting to see the spread of where thosre symbols show up all over the map and if there are any concentrations of specific symbols, such as an area with alot of "danger" or "ally" symbols

Ah, the faction that exists simply to increase my bodycount at a later point in the game.

IIRC, Caretaker can also send you to clear out a "trouble spot" in the Nuka-world area, where the trouble is some reasonably peaceful ex-gunners. Usually, this causes him to suffer a sudden case of lead poisoning or 10th degree burns.

I am a simple being, I see RadKing, I see railroad, I click.

Also I like how everyone assumes that the synth in the Broken Mask Incident went crazy, rather than being an intended operation.

I'd imagine there was also a safehouse in Quincy back before the Gunners decimated the place. There could have also been one near University Point and Salem given they were large populatoon centres

I will say this: While nothing really comes of Boxer if you tell her and the Railroad that there's a Synth Sanctuary in Far Harbor in Fallout 4... Fallout Shelter Online has missions for the Railroad that mention that they have started to use boats to ship synths that don't want their memories wiped to Far Harbor. While I know that Fallout Shelter Online is thoroughly non-canonical, it has a lot of details that I think could be interesting, such as that, if included in Future installments. Plus, the upgraded artwork of each character is sweet, and I try to emulate the look and weapon loadouts of Online as best I can for my companions whenever I play Fallout 4.

28:11 diamond city also having a basement doctors for face changes could be a similar case as with Amari

"How are they not suffering from the bonfire in the building?" "We raiderz have 10 endurance and at least five chems in us at one given time, get on our level mortal"

These series are my favorite! Great analysis, thanks for sharing! I can't wait for the next episode

At 46.30, you call him tweaker tom. XD an astute observation.

Love the work you put into this series, one of the best

If i remember correctly there should also be a dead railroad member in a hospital in Boston DT, but i might be confusing it with a dead minuteman

Where do you classify stockton's daughter that covenant kidnapped? I expected that caravan to be in your list of dead railroad assets.

On the railroad "freedom trail" part, it's mentioned that the switchboard used to be their HQ. My guess is that the church was a small recruitment/monitoring post, but was the only viable place to rebuild after the synths attacked the other site

If you go to the memory den before the quest line needs you to, you can pass a speech check to relive the events of Shaun being kidnapped and you spouse being killed. In this memory the person who grabs Shaun is named Amari in the dialogue. So that might have had something to do with it.

Curious why railroad signs aren't mapped 🤔

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Safehouse Trinity could mean Trinity tower. As it's currently in very bad shape and filled with mutants now, who knows what went on there before. Also Safehouse Bolthole could make either an old colonial era Fort or Building as old Forts and such often had Boltholes, which were basically secret escape tunnels or hatches. Another thing you didn't consider was all the railroad signs. There could be a few of them indicating areas that agents often frequent. Some could just be caches others could be informal safehouses or other allies. Also the other DIA caches could be seen as railroad property since only they really can open them with the Sole survivors help after breaking back into the old HQ.

Good series. Keep up the good work, and please keep at updating your vids

The railroad has some great missions

Great vid as always King

The whole point of an underground railroad is to NOT be cartographed...

In defense of Railroads' trail and password to their base, consider how the average wastelander would react? To most, it would just be graffiti. This is also downtown, which is heavily infested dangers. Maybe to pre-war minds, the puzzle is simple, but you still have to fight packs of ghouls, hounds, mutants, raiders and even gunners.

Little info on why the tallest buildings in Boston couldn't be taken for the MILA Q's. I strongly suspect that this has something to do with the game engine. If you somehow reach the roof of the Mass Fusion building, the Institute quest is automatically started from the end of the Institute quest line, where you are teleported to the roof. This happens regardless of whether you even know the Institute at this point and I strongly assume that it is similar with the Trinity Tower, as you meet Rex and Strong there during their quest.

I always like these Cartography videos.

10:39 Griswald could be a reference to fort griswald in Connecticut

Hell yeah, I've been waiting for this one

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Caretaker will also send you to DLC locations to "clear a path" for the concierge quest. one such location he'd like you to wipe out is a completely innocent family farm. Namely the Dunmore farm in Nuka-World. all the way to the south-west. When I say "innocent" I mean their only crime is being rude, though the patriarch of the family becomes a little more hospitable if you've wiped out the Nuka-World raiders. Yes, you have to kill them, you cannot convince them to leave. there's no dialog options for it. I'm inclined to believe this is a bug, and not intended by Bethesda, and I'm pretty sure the unofficial patch fixes it for the same reasoning seeing as this family unit isn't hostile when you arrive for this mission.

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Always an interesting look. I didn't notice any mention of the locations that have the safehouse railsigns randomly around the Commonwealth though, excepting Bedford Station (where it's on the switching tower where you find the recording). Two others I know off the top of my head are the Quincy Red Rocket and a broken down house at the corner of Prospekt Park between Wattz and Stockton's Church that has a sleeping bag upstairs you can use. These may have been some of those smaller safehouses, and it would be interesting to see how these would factor into the route maps. As for the bioscience guys having the binned tapes, I suspect this is an asset reuse situation. Since containers can be created in the game files with items included, and all these bins look the same, I think it's likely the one for covenant where it's in the bin was made special, and then it was accidentally reused in the Bioscience rooms of the Institute, but it's still fun to speculate.

Would be interested in seeing a map of all the synths in the commonwealth. Sturges, Warwick, Mayor McDunough, anyone else with a synth component, and some info on what they were up to. I'm sure there's a lot of them around that I and a lot of other players don't know about.

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You missed the RR agent watching you when you leave Vault 111.

New video to fall asleep to! Nice

I got a mercer safehouse where boomer is once or twice which might have been mentioned but I didn't hear it so it felt worth mentioning

You forgot Slim, a goal merchant marked with an “ally” rail sign.

Keep in mind that the Railroad's current HQ in the Old North Church is easy to find via the Freedom Trail and its not-so-subtle hints because, in all likelihood, the Sole Survivor and, by extension, the Player *is literate,* and I recall one bit of info from dialogue is that most people of The Commonwealth are *_il_** -literate,* so even such a simple hint and puzzle would be baffling to most because they: *1.* Cannot read the Freedom Trail's markers, and will likely not have any spare writing utensils to even make any note of the glyphs they see, which couples with: *2.* Most people are unknowledgeable of American History and the monuments created to honor such, so "The Freedom Trail" would be referencing something they have no context for, even through the Freedom Trail's markers and literal red trail is obvious on looking at it, it's likely an irrelevant quirk of Boston to most people, and finally: *3.* Most people are likely utterly unconcerned with following the obscure and metaphor-sounding hints and teases of The Railroad's recruitment statement because they are *not the player* and lack the very game-y abilities to not starve; to absorb horrific injuries from sharp and blunt objects, bullets, lasers, plasma, and radiation and only need a handful of chems or 200-year old snacks to recover from; and can mysteriously gain new skills and knowledge irrelevant to likely everything they've done hitherto from "perks". The common man is, not built to risk their lives on something that drags them through a gauntlet of monsters and ne're-do-wells for a relatively-underwhelming "reward" of getting conscripted into a clandestine operatives group. and... *4.* Even if all of the above could be defied by one or many people, perhaps the person or persons who could have followed-through with the hint simply disagree with The Railroad's ideals/want to exterminate Synths once and for all... *Or* that person or persons don't care about The Railroad for one reason or another, because their priorities are not with shadow-y organizations for one reason or another, like helping those that have no knowledge, time, or resources to spare on such a gallivanting adventure.

Something I never understood: why doesn't the institute just send out undercover synths/coursers that seek out the railroad, tell them they are a synth that wants to escape, and have them either destroy the place or sabotage it until ready for an assault.

Likely just a result of game mechanics, but I find it interesting to theorize that when we build a settlement to function as a safe house, any settlers assigned there may also sympathize with the railroad. Especially since that settlement would likely continue to operate as one far after the initial quest.

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I've been wondering about the traders who supply information to the Institute. Is there any evidence besides the Institute saying they are informants? I've wondered some, especially since they are all known to hang out with Stockton (or at least be in the same area of the map together) if they could possibly be double agents? Could Stockton slip them a little extra money to give the Institute old or slightly inaccurate information? You would think with the number of synths coming through Bunker Hill, many of them not knowing the norms of society outside of the Institute, and the fact that the traders share a room with Stockton on a weekly basis, the Institute would have found out about him and targeted him.

I think there is an argument to be made that Piper is sympathetic with the railroad. As she does her best to be a whistleblower of the dangers of the institute, but is not hostile to Nick. But she is hostile to Mayor Mcdunna who she believes is a synth and an instute informer

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Amazing video! @radking will you do a cartography video on the BOS and enclave from FO3?

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Glory to Atom!

The people of fallout are living hour by hour, imagine living in hell and being like "Ya let''s fight aliens and recapture their probe victims" "Better go fight the AI gods that can teleport" "Oh...stepped on a nail, guess I'll die"

Thank you for this information, citizen. I shall now direct the data to Minuteman General & Institute Director "Sole Survivor" so he can clean up all loose ends. XD

There's a ghoul living right next to the Gunners at the Mass Bay Medical Center. He has an "ally" Railroad symbol on his wall. There is also an "ally" symbol on the door of vault 81.

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Vault 81 is an ally if the railroad and you missed multiple outpostd

Love maps, and love fallout. This is sweet.

Can you do a brotherhood of steel cartography video

Every single time I do Boston after dark I get an amazing fireworks show down the road from Ada and the mechanisms bots

Another Kingly movie-length video is here. Time to zone out.

Lmfao tweeker tom is soooooo much more fitting

I wish we could get perks that made it beneficial to be iradiated. Not just ghoulish. I mean in 76. A perk that works like atoms Devoted robes. A perk that works like Hancocks perk. A perk that works like rad powered. A perk that works like rad child which was better than ghoulish. A perk that worked like atomic. A perk that worked like nuclear anomaly but without healing all your radiation. A perk that worked like the inquisitor of atom perk. A prrk that worked like atoms bulwark. A perk that worked like the champion of atom perk. I do realize sone of these are from past games and from legendary effects. They could work them into the game as cards or armors. They only need to rework them a little and balance them out a bit.

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Ain’t no way I woke up and saw a new tasking video. Ain’t no way. Glad to be here this early I love your work dude.

Do you plan on doing this series on older games ?

It’s possible that the Old North Church wasn’t the HQ for the Railroad when they set up the whole “Follow the Freedom Trail” thing, and they had to turn it into their HQ because of Institute meddling.

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At least in my play throughs, I've only ever seen Mercer go to far away settlements, Zimonja, the Drive-in, Sunshine Tidings...it seems like its always an empty settlement and far away from Boston proper. I always assumed it was an attempt to have a location near the edge of the map to get synths out of the area. Perhaps a response to losing so many urban safehouses? Or perhaps those are a newer effort?