Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-72.49.131.154-20140810215113

It's been long implied that the "train full of dust - stolen!" Weiss referred to in s1 e15 was the train from the Black trailer. But when Adam and Blake thought they'd cleared out the droids from the train and looked in the cargo, Adam said, "Move up to the next car - I'll set the CHARGES." That suggests the plan was to blow up the train, not steal the cargo. So if both of those assumptions are true, why the change of plan? We can only assume that Blake's actions forced the White Fang to change the plan. But why? If just blowing up the dust and denying it to the Schnee was their objectve, they could've stil done it even without the engine.

The only possible answer is that their real objective required the train cars and dust to be somewhere else - meaning, not in the middle of nowhere as Adam was marooned at in the trailer - when the charges went off. So I conclude that the dust on the train wasn't the target - it was the ammuntion they were going to use against the target. So the real plan must've been to detonate the entire trainload of dust either at the destination (which would've been a Schnee company railyard or dust storage facility) or while the train was passing through the city of Vale on its way to its final destination. 