Gaffer Tape said:
Somebody please explain to me what place a train has in a world modeled after medieval Europe!

Yeah, that is exactly how I felt when telephones showed up in Links Awakening. At least the game ended and everything turned out to be a dream... sort of, which makes it slightly more forgivable. But since then they have been slipping all kinds of silly stuff in there on us, like the camera in Majora's Mask to name one. I suppose it was only a matter of time before Link hopped on a train.