

Just finished FMAB and felt myself wondering why the nationwide transmutation
circle had railroad tracks in every underground circle?

There was some interesting discussion
[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7935/how-did-sloth-lay-rail-
underground) with regards to how the tracks were even able to be laid in the
first place. I mean, it seems like an alchemist would be necessary at the very
least to transmute ore in the underground into iron tracks, and then as for
the wood, maybe carbon trapped in the ground.

I didn't feel like any of the explanations in that thread were particularly
satisfactory because from what I saw in the show, with the exception of
Father, homunculi don't seem to perform alchemy.

And clearly there were no teams of people entering and exiting the tunnels to
lay tracks as when Sloth completes the circle in Briggs, there is no one
laying tracks as he completes the digging.

All that aside though, my real question is: **why are there tracks in the
first place?** They could have just been empty tunnels, right?

Is this just an unanswered question of the show? Or have I missed something?


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Why do the nationwide transmutation circles have railroad tracks?


There's a real possibility that people did "get in" but never got out. And i
can assume that the tracks are there for the purpose of Sloth getting faster
in a part that needs repair or if he has to surface in specific places.


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