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The Great Mexican Train Robbery, Abraham Reyes
Abraham Reyes

The Great Mexican Train Robbery

Abraham Reyes

Mission giver
Abraham Reyes
Location
Chuparosa and right outside Casa Madrugada
Starts at
Agave Viejo
Ends at
Right outside Casa Madrugada
Unlocked by
Finished Cowards Die Many Times
Unlocks
The Gates of El Presidio

Player notes

John Marston meets Abraham Reyes at Agave Viejo, where Reyes asks him to help seize a Mexican Army supply train. They ride through the rain to Chuparosa. Reyes explains that the rear section must be uncoupled before the train departs, leaving the engine and its armoured car for them to take. He creates a diversion while John slips onto the train platform without raising the alarm.

John silently removes the guards along the train, reaches the coupling and detaches the rear cars. As they roll away, he deals with the soldiers guarding the remaining train, including the gunner on its Gatling gun. John clears the cars ahead, releases the engine brake and takes control of the locomotive. Reyes catches up as the train carries them away from Chuparosa.

With the train moving, John collects explosives and climbs onto the armoured car. He plants a charge on its hatch, withdraws, then enters after the blast tears the hatch open. Inside, he cracks the safe and takes its contents. John returns outside to Reyes, who says he will soon obtain the information John needs, then leaves him beside the train outside Casa Madrugada.

Objectives

5 steps

In the order the game gives them. The unnumbered steps only appear if you go off script.

  1. 1Ride with Abraham Reyes to Chuparosa.
  2. 2Detach the Mexican Army train car.
  3. 3Take control of the engine and hijack the train.
  4. 4Blast open the armored car's hatch.
  5. 5Crack the safe inside the armored car.

Trivia

  • โ—†The name of this mission is inspired by the 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery.
  • โ—†The plot of robbing a train loaded with ammunition is perhaps an allusion to Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch, which Rockstar noted as one of the films that inspired the game. In the film, however, the characters rob a train for a character not very unlike Colonel Allende.
  • โ—†This is the only time that a train is seen pulling more than five cars.
  • โ—†It always rains during this mission, possibly because the darkness of the clouds can allow John to approach more surreptitiously, and that the thunderstorm can help hide unnecessary noises.
  • โ—†This is the only Reyes mission which does not involve killing an antagonist. It is also the only Reyes mission that doesn't reward the player an Achievement/Trophy.
  • โ—†This is one of the few missions to require the player to neutralize an enemy without alerting anyone to their presence, another being At Home With Dutch.
  • โ—†If the player shoots while inside the armored wagon Reyes will make a comment about it like "Are you shooting imaginary soldiers?".
  • โ—†After the train is uncoupled at Chuparosa, it rolls westwards, down the hill. The uncoupled train never actually stops, and continues to gain speed indefinitely. Using mods, it's possible to watch the unmanned train cross into the USA, making a loop around Gaptooth Breach and Tumbleweed, passing through Benedict Point, then re-entering Mexico. It will even pass its point of origin in Chuparosa, clipping through the stationary train, and zooming off through Mexico, back into the USA. By the time it has passed MacFarlane's Ranch and entered the tunnel in the Redemption Mountains, it is too fast to keep up with.
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Last verified September 14, 2026