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The Wasteland is the landscape on which the Infinity Train travels, but very little is known about it.
Appearance[]
The Wasteland is a vast, lifeless desert. The only life it seems to support is a few dead, leafless, twisted black trees, and Ghoms, which live underground and emerge onto the wasteland through patches of black mud or cracks in the ground.
The sky in the Wasteland is blocked out by clouds in varying shades of red, but a thick strip of white light near the horizon suggests that the clouds are finite. The ground is varying shades of red, orange, and brown, and very flat. It is littered with pebbles and webbed with cracks. Mountains can be seen in the distance.
History[]
In "The Grid Car," Tulip Olsen witnesses a storm in the Wasteland, which seems to have fatal impact to an inhabitant on board the train when said inhabitant gets turned to ash and sucked into the core of the storm.
"The Engine" reveals that the vortex is in fact totally safe and the only way to leave the Wasteland and for the passengers to return home.
"The Wasteland" shows that if any Train denizens happen to be in the wasteland and got too far away from the Train, a mysterious, repulsive force draws them back and prevent them from going too far from The Train. This seems to also effect passengers as it stops Tilip in "The Grid Car"
In "The Tape Car", a documentary by One-One about the Passenger Preparation Car explains that it is the only car in which the universe is projected on the outside, suggesting that the Wasteland is a simulated universe used to house the Train's infinitely-growing length, and implying that the Ghoms are denizens of the Train that prevent passengers from leaving the Train without getting their number to 0.