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Game of Thrones Could Really Use a Public Transit System

This rail proposal isn't perfect, but it sure beats taking the Eastern Road and getting sacked by a hedge knight.

Tormund Giantsbane (center, played by Kristofer Hivju), leader of a large warband of wildlings, hustles across the vast plains of Westeros. A public transit system could cut travel times in half for warbands. Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO

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By Kriston Capps

December 23, 2014 at 2:03 PM EST

Winter is coming. And, hey, look—so's the next train!

Thanks to Brooklyn printers Fencing & Archery, there's now a transit system for Westeros, one of four continents of the known world in Game of Thrones. And this comprehensive rail plan is as sprawling as A Song of Ice and Fire (that's, of course,George R. R. Martin's magnum GOT opus)

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