Basic Trope: A car lacking tires is able to run on rails.
- Straight: Bob's tires burst, but his bare rims allow him to drive on train tracks.
- Exaggerated: The bare rims of Bob's Porsche Cayenne fit perfectly onto the train tracks and he is able to outrace a bullet train.
- Downplayed: Bob can drive on the train tracks, though it's hard for him to stay on.
- Justified:
- Bob's vehicle is modified specifically to run on railway tracks.
- Bob looked for a vehicle that has a wheelbase size similar to the local train gauge.
- Inverted: Bob's train is given tires to drive on the roads
- Subverted: Bob drives on the train tracks, only to slip right off....
- Double Subverted: ...Only to fit on narrower rails
- Parodied:
- Bob's vehicle is fitted with a train whistle.
- Bob's enemies take a five-second pause of respite when they board a train only to look behind them and see Bob is not Racing the Train but he got the car (which is falling apart from the abuse) on the tracks and is trying to get close enough to jump on board.
- Bob's car gets on the tracks. It either rattles itself to pieces from all the bumping (or at least it's a tremendously uncomfortable ride) or it does not get enough grip and just stands still with wheels spinning uselessly.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob can drive on normal rails, but has trouble on crossings and other parts where the tracks are in the ground.
- Averted: Bob's vehicle is unable to drive on train tracks.
- Enforced: The producers wanted a logical reason for Bob to get from A to B in time to stop Alice when the only way remotely plausible in Real Life was by way of train bridge.
- Lampshaded: "I guess my vehicle's a train now..."
- Invoked: Bob pops his tires as he drives onto the tracks
- Exploited: Bob drives his car onto the train tracks in order to get away from gangsters trying to gun him down.
- Defied: Bob keeps his tires in good shape and doesn't drive on railroad tracks.
- Discussed: “How do Bare rims allow me to drive on these tracks?”
- Conversed: “???”
- Implied: Bob's car is taken to a mechanic (who notes that each of the wheels have a longitudinal dent in their rim the width of a rail head) for repairs.
