Location from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Capitol luxury train transporting tributes from their district to the Capitol — crystal chandeliers and five-course meals for children being delivered to their executions.
The Tribute Train is the Capitol's cruelest joke: surrounding condemned children with luxury they've never imagined. Hot showers. Lamb stew with dried plums. Chocolate cake. Real butter. For kids from District 12 who've been hungry their entire lives, the train is overwhelming — and that's the point. The Capitol wants tributes off-balance, dazzled, and grateful before the killing starts. Mentors use the journey to assess their tributes and begin strategy. Haymitch drank through most of it. Effie Trinket fussed about schedules. Katniss stared out the window and calculated her odds. The train moves so fast that the journey from District 12 to the Capitol takes less than a day — not enough time to prepare for anything, which is also the point.
A sleek silver bullet train, impossibly fast. Interior: mahogany-paneled cars with plush carpet, crystal chandeliers, dining cars with Capitol cuisine, individual sleeping compartments with real beds. Windows show the landscape blurring past at two hundred miles per hour.
Also known as: the Tribute Train, the train, Capitol train