Train Raider

is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryuuki Nishioku, with illustrations by Akihiro Kimura. The series began publication on June 10, 1999 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint.

The original draft of the series was written by Hitoshi Yasuda.

Synopsis
1880, United States of America. It was a pioneering world where steam locomotives played an active role as the center of transportation. The "Domestic Railroad Network Development Plan" allowed companies to lay railroad lines, and several railroad companies with enormous economic power appeared. Behind the scenes, a railroad pirate "Train Raider" hired by a company was born, whose official duty was to obstruct the management of other companies. The Steampunk World, in which a 17-year-old boy Kronos Archer, whose father is a famous raider, plays an active part with "Steel Falcon" (Steel Falcon), has finally started.