text: > go downward
  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.
  
  You see a concealed maintenance access hatch in the floor here.
  
  You can also see an external ladder, a sport coat (in which are a bottle of hydroxide (which is empty), a strange red bulb, a small plastic tube (which is closed) (in which is some litmus powder), a punched ticket, a small velvet box (which is closed) and a train schedule), a bottle of acid (which is closed) (in which is a quantity of acid) and a bottle of developing fluid (which is closed) here.
  
  > wear the ring
  (first taking the diamond ring)
  You're already wearing that!
  
  > look at the acid
  A dark glass bottle with a screw cap. The label on the outside has a stylized hand being dissolved away.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a strange red bulb
  a small plastic tube (which is closed)
  some litmus powder
  a train schedule
  
  > 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 an external ladder, a small velvet box (which is empty), a punched ticket, a bottle of acid (which is closed) (in which is a quantity of acid) and a bottle of developing fluid (which is closed) here.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  
  The train just barreled through the Glendale station.
  
  > Go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 5, 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 barreled through the Los Angeles station.
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > 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 an external ladder, a squirt bottle (which is closed) (in which is a quantity of pale blue liquid) and a can of lubricant here.
  
  > Go upward
  (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 an external ladder and a can of lubricant here.
  
  > stand on the railing
  Not again! It was nerve-wracking enough the first time!
  
  > go south
  (The maintenance access hatch slams shut when you release it to move.) You start to open the door, but an ominous shadow across the window convinces you otherwise.
  
  > go to the north
  You open the door to car 6.
  
  Car 6, the last car
  This is a tiny car-- a classic caboose, except it isn't red, and it doesn't have a potbelly stove. It's pretty much a lounge for the conductor and his assistants, except the conductor is conspicuously missing.
  
  You can see all of the passengers and a tool chest (which is empty) here.
  
  The door to the car junction slides shut.
  
  > go south
  You open the door to the car junction.
  
  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.
  
  You see a concealed maintenance access hatch in the floor here.
  
  You can also see an external ladder here.
  
  The door to car 6 slides shut.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a can of lubricant
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  
  > Go north
  The door is locked, and even if you could open it, you'd step out to empty space.
  
  > drop all
  can of lubricant: The can of lubricant falls off the train and hits the ground. Within moments it is out of sight.
  squirt bottle: The squirt bottle falls off the train and hits the ground. Within moments it is out of sight.
  
  > Shit
  Real adventurers do not use such language.
  
  The train just rumbled through the Fullerton station.
  
  > look
  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.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb
  
  > go upwards
  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 north
  It's a real struggle, but eventually you move northwards 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.
  
  The train just rumbled by the Oxnard 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.
  
  The train just barreled through the Simi Valley station.