text: [Themes: thriller]
  
  > Go down
  (The maintenance access hatch slams shut after you pass through.)
  
  You're in a small gap between the cars. Small maintenance tunnels lead south and north, although they are rather small and probably not safe when the train is in motion. A maintenance hatch above you offers more traditional passage on the train.
  
  A prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the "closed" position.
  
  > look at the brakes
  Almost anything could be hidden in that mess.
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > listen
  The voices are too muffled to understand.
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > Go south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  A prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the "closed" position.
  
  The train just rushed by the Paso Robles station.
  
  > Go south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 5, underside
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > go to the south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  A prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the "closed" position.
  
  > Go upwards
  (You pop open the maintenance access hatch as you go topside.)
  
  A maintenance access hatch is open, leading downwards to darkness.
  
  > Go north
  (The maintenance access hatch slams shut when you release it to move.) You open the door to car 4.
  
  Car 4, Fore
  
  The door to the car junction slides shut.
  
  > go to the south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 3, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  The train just rushed past the San Luis Obispo station.
  
  > look at the mechanisms
  Almost anything could be hidden in that mess.
  
  > go to the north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 3, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  > examine the railing
  The metal railing is the only thing that keeps one from falling off the car to your death. That, and the common sense not to go too near the edge.
  
  > examine the chest
  It's long, heavy, made of metal, paint flaking off here and there. A tool chest.
  
  > move chest
  Nothing obvious happens.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a can of lubricant
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  
  > drop the squirt bottle
  Dropped.
  
  > drop blue liquid
  The squirt bottle is already here.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a can of lubricant
  
  > look at the can
  It's a very large can of a popular brand of all-purpose lubricant, complete with the long pointy tube that allows delivery of chemicals into tight spaces.
  
  The oil on the release lever evaporates away.
  
  > Go upwards
  (You pop open the maintenance access hatch as you go topside.)
  
  Between each pair of cars is an area which has always frightened you. Maybe it's the fact that the area is open save for a flimsy metal railing across the gaps; maybe it's the constant shifting of the floor beneath your feet. Safer areas lie south and north.
  
  A maintenance access hatch is open, leading downwards to darkness.
  
  You can also see a squirt bottle (which is closed) (in which is a quantity of pale blue liquid) here.
  
  > Go up
  (You pop open the maintenance access hatch as you go topside.)
  
  Between each pair of cars is an area which has always frightened you. Maybe it's the fact that the area is open save for a flimsy metal railing across the gaps; maybe it's the constant shifting of the floor beneath your feet. Safer areas lie south and north.
  
  A maintenance access hatch is open, leading downwards to darkness.
  
  You can also see a can of lubricant here.
  
  > drop the lubricant
  The can of lubricant is already here.
  
  > drop all
  (the squirt bottle)
  Dropped.
  
  > Go north
  (The maintenance access hatch slams shut when you release it to move.) You open the door to car 4.
  
  Car 4, Fore
  So this is the press car. Big deal. It's just a modified sleeper, with the compartments converted into miniature offices for the reporters. Compartments lie east and west, while the rest of the car lies north and the exit from this car is south.
  
  The door to the car junction slides shut.
  
  > go ladder
  Handholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.
  
  The train just zoomed by the Santa Barbara station.
  
  > Go south
  It's a real struggle, but eventually you move southwards along the top of the train...
  
  Handholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.
  
  A large metal hatch is embedded in the roof of the car.
  
  > go hatch
  Once inside, you realize why this car wasn't accessible from the rest of the train: it's a mail transport car. Bags of letters and parcels fill the shelves around you, almost completely obscuring the one light fixture in the car. The sliding metal door east offers a possible exit.
  
  An open metal hatch reveals the sun and sky above.
  
  The beam of sunlight from the open metal hatch draws your eyes to a large wooden crate sitting at the north end of the car.
  
  > examine the fixture
  In the light bulb socket is a 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb.
  
  > get the bulb
  You unscrew the 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb from the light bulb socket.
  
  > examine the bulb
  It's your average 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb, good for general purpose work in the home or office.
  
  > move the box
  (the metal box)
  It is fixed in place.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb