Question: *Westworld* premiered on HBO two weeks ago (as of the writing of this question, we've only seen Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2).

One of the things they haven't shown us yet (I hope will be revealed soon) is how objects in the physical world (host robots, guest humans, even inanimate items like cowboy hats and guns) get "transported" into the park ("Westworld").

I know the guests ride trains and then somehow they're magically "in" the park, but that's obviously not how they *really* get transported (it wouldn't be believable or even remotely realistic).

There was a Michael Crichton book as well as a movie in 1973 surrounding the same story line. Anybody know how you actually travel or get transported in/out of the parks?

Answer: 
[It's still unknown](https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/westworld-robots-park-man-in-black-questions).

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> Where, exactly, is this place? How do paying customers catch the train? It's a nice touch that customers arrive in town along with hosts, but it's also confusing. It's a bit more clear in Michael Crichton's original flick, in which visitors travel in together from a real-world location via hovercraft and arrive at a futuristic-looking greeting area at an adult amusement park called Delos, where they are outfitted and then shipped off to one of three themed subsections: West World, Medieval World, or Roman World. Will the HBO series pull back to reveal the functional world outside the park?
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As per CBredlow's comment, some of the mystery has been answered in the second episode. We know how paying customers catch the train.

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> We do know how paying customers catch the train, as in episode 2 we see people walk down a hall after they get dressed and cross a threshold into the bar car of the train into the town.
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Just to clear up a few questions raised in the comments, the park [is not virtual reality](http://www.thisisinsider.com/westworld-park-rules-2016-10/#the-employees-who-run-the-park-are-living-and-working-in-a-huge-underground-facility-9), but rather a physical facility.

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Based on the maps available on the [Westworld Website](https://discoverwestworld.com/), guests arrive by high-speed subterranean monorail, disembark at the Mesa Gold facility's "*Arrivals Monorail Terminal*" (situated a few miles from the centre of the park), then catch the olde-fashioned steam train which takes them the last few miles from the facility to the town of Sweetwater.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gIs2u.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gIs2u.gif)

I've highlighted the *probable* route of the monorail, but obviously if it's underground it could literally come from any direction, including directly below the conventional train track.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SQ5pL.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SQ5pL.png)