Editing The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town

{{level infobox
|image=[[File:PPS The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town gameplay.png|250px]]
|code=
|world=BF
|game=''[[Princess Peach: Showtime!]]''
|powerup=[[Cowgirl Peach]]
|boss=[[Dark Locomotive]]
|track=A Wild Showdown
|sample=[[File:Princess Peach Showtime! 019 A Wild Showdown.oga]]
|before=[[Cowgirl at Dusk|{{ruby|<<|Cowgirl}}]]
|after=[[The Dark Museum & the Purple Mystery|{{ruby|>>|BF right}}]]
|limit=
}}

'''The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town''' is a level in ''[[Princess Peach: Showtime!]]'', located in the fourth-from-left on the upper tier of the basement of the [[Sparkle Theater]]. This stage becomes accessible after clearing [[Cowgirl at Dusk]]. It is the third level where the [[Cowgirl Peach]] transformation is used.

==Layout==
The show starts with [[Cowgirl Peach]] jumping near-immediately onto the [[Horse]] that is standing nearby, taking up the chase on a [[train]] route with two lanes besides, towards [[Sour Bunch]] members on horsebacks and a train they are operating.

Having surpassed the train, Peach rescues [[Cowgirl Sparkla]] from the pole she was tied to, who then says she wish to treat her to a glass of [[milk]].

With the Horse and the Cowgirl Sparkla having set up a three-wagon diligence ride to get across broken and wonky bridges (The rear two wagons will snap off no matter how much damage they take), they make a great leap across a canyon, with [[Princess Peach|Peach]] ending up in a small corrupted village ahead. After getting across the village's four buildings, Peach jumps back onto the diligence that now has three wagons again, then jumps off again to three slowly sinking platforms as the train catches up with them, then gets back onto the horse again.

With the train now right behind them, Peach catches and throws barrels at the train's front with her lasso, getting across the final jump, with train falling down the canyon in the middle. The locomotive re-appears soon after and now catches up to Peach, instead of the other way around, as Peach has to grab floating barrels and thrown them at the front of the locomotive, to keep it at bay long enough for one final jump, with the locomotive crashing into the canyon soon after.

==Loss outcomes==
*If Peach and the horse is on the wrong lane (Top or bottom lane) when she is supposed to line up with the pole-bound Cowboy Sparkla in the center lane, they will run into the right end of the scene and lose one [[HP]], resetting Peach to some seconds before the lineup.
*If all three diligence wagons explode in the final chase, by means of the locomotive ramming into it six times, Peach will be flung slightly up in the air, lose one HP and be returned to the start of the final chase.

==Sparkle Gems==
[[Sparkle Gem]]s marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Image
!Location
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town 1st SG.png|150px]]
|Between two rocks in Lane Two, circa when Peach has caught up with the first box of the rearmost carriage.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town 2nd SG.png|150px]]
|Rescuing the Cowgirl Sparkla.*
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town 3rd SG.png|150px]]
|A [[Sub-area|backroom pose elevator]] is found to the right of the buildings before the broken bridge. Defeating four Sour Bunch gunmen will award the Gem.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town 4th SG.png|150px]]
|Defeat the box-carrying Sour Bunch horse rider before the second broken bridge, with the lasso.
|-
|[[File:PPS! The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town 5th SG.png|150px]]
|Throwing barrels well enough at the locomotive in the final section, that the locomotive never touches the diligence's rear wagon.
|}

==Ribboner==
[[Ribboner]] is found underneath the third building of the village after the great leap. He awards the [[Stella ribbon|Multicolored Cowgirl Ribbon]] for [[Stella]].
*Help request: ''"I'm stuck in here!"''
*Rescue message: ''"Whew! That was close!"''

==Lobby Shop stock==
Completing the level allows Peach to buy the Special Cowgirl [[Dress ribbon|Dress]] for 300 [[coin]]s at the [[Lobby Shop]].

==Postgame Ninja Theet==
The stage has one [[Ninja (Princess Peach: Showtime!)|Ninja]] [[Theet]] when it is played in the postgame:
#In the start of the second section, on top of the nearest bridge pole before jumping up on the three horse wagons.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=175>
PPS Horse Dark Locomotive.png|The horse as she appears at the start of the level
PPS Cowgirl Sparkla.jpg|Cowgirl Sparkla posing at the end of the level
PPS Cowgirl album 3.jpg|[[Pictioneer]]'s photo of the stage
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ヤミの{{ruby|列車|れっしゃ}}と{{ruby|崩壊|ほうかい}}の{{ruby|町|まち}}
|JapR=Yami no Ressha to Hōkai no Machi
|JapM=Dark Train and Collapsing Town
|ChiS=黑暗的列车与崩坏的城镇
|ChiSR=Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn
|ChiSM=Dark Train and Collapsing Town
|ChiT=黑暗的列車與崩壞的城鎮
|ChiTR=Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn
|ChiTM=Dark Train and Collapsing Town
|Dut=De duistere locomotief
|DutM=The dark locomotive
|Fre=Train sombre et ville condamnée
|FreM=Dark train and doomed city
|Ger=Der Zug und die bedrohte Stadt
|GerM=The Train and the threatened City
|Ita=La corsa della locomotiva oscura
|ItaM=The race/ride of the dark locomotive
|Kor=어둠의 열차와 무너지는 마을
|KorR=Eodum-ui yeolcha-wa muneojineun ma'eul
|KorM=Dark Train and Collapsing Town
|Por=A Locomotiva Sombria e o Povoado
|PorM=The Dark Locomotive and the Town
|Rus=Поезд мрака и угроза городу
|RusR=Po'yezd mraka i ugroza gorodu
|RusM=Train of darkness and a threat to the city
|Spa=Asalto al tren de la malguria
|SpaM=Assault on the darkle train
}}
{{PPS levels}}
[[Category:Princess Peach: Showtime! levels]]