The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town

Level
The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town
World	BF
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Cowgirl Peach
Boss	Dark Locomotive
Music track	A Wild Showdown
Music sample
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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 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 Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

Image	Location
	Between two rocks in Lane Two, circa when Peach has caught up with the first box of the rearmost carriage.
	Rescuing the Cowgirl Sparkla.*
	A backroom pose elevator is found to the right of the buildings before the broken bridge. Defeating four Sour Bunch gunmen will award the Gem.
	Defeat the box-carrying Sour Bunch horse rider before the second broken bridge, with the lasso.
	Throwing barrels well enough at the locomotive in the final section, that the locomotive never touches the diligence's rear wagon.

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Multicolored Cowgirl Ribbon: Ribboner is found underneath the third building of the village after the great leap. He awards the Stella 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 for 300 coins at the Lobby Shop.

Postgame hidden Ninja Theet

The stage has one Ninja Theet when it is played in the postgame:

Image	Location
	In the start of the second section, on top of the nearest bridge pole before jumping up on the three horse wagons.

Gallery

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  The horse as she appears at the start of the level

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  Cowgirl Sparkla posing at the end of the level

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  Pictioneer's photo of the stage

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ヤミの列車れっしゃと崩壊ほうかいの町まち[?] Yami no Ressha to Hōkai no Machi	Dark Train and Collapsing Town
Chinese (simplified)	黑暗的列车与崩坏的城镇[?] Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn	Dark Train and Collapsing Town
Chinese (traditional)	黑暗的列車與崩壞的城鎮[?] Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn	Dark Train and Collapsing Town
Dutch	De duistere locomotief[?]	The dark locomotive
French	Train sombre et ville condamnée[?]	Dark train and doomed city
German	Der Zug und die bedrohte Stadt[?]	The Train and the threatened City
Italian	La corsa della locomotiva oscura[?]	The race/ride of the dark locomotive
Korean	어둠의 열차와 무너지는 마을[?] Eodum-ui yeolcha-wa muneojineun ma'eul	Dark Train and Collapsing Town
Portuguese	A Locomotiva Sombria e o Povoado[?]	The Dark Locomotive and the Town
Russian	Поезд мрака и угроза городу[?] Po'yezd mraka i ugroza gorodu	Train of darkness and a threat to the city
Spanish	Asalto al tren de la malguria[?]	Assault on the darkle train