Interdiction Rapid-Response Railway Repair Cart
Portal-equipped maintenance cart hauled onto the employee track to open the train's route to the abyss.
Story so far
Carl and Katia Grim carried the Interdiction Rapid-Response Railway Repair Cart by hand, turned it and positioned it on the employee track, its wheels fitting just inside the wider rails. Its portal was the door through which The Nightmare Express was sent across the floor into The Abyss.
Once the train had passed through, Zhang climbed back in and switched the portal off. Afterward Carl scolded Princess Donut for having risked both herself and the cart to come after him; she was unrepentant. The party then rode or walked the employee line back up to Station 36.
Appearance
A small rail maintenance cart sized for the wider employee track, fitted with a portal generator and controls.
Role
The crew's mobile portal platform and the delivery mechanism for the train bomb.
Relationships
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- A never-used hobgoblin workhorse with a tunnel-wide portal blade that dumps everything ahead of it into a trainyard or the abyss.
- Six carts go out roped with dead men's hands; the rest become a tunnel cork and the party's ride home.
- Five times a train's speed, no brakes, and a portal that eats whatever it meets — including the cart behind it.
- Two carts coupled back to back, both portals pointed at the abyss — a rolling box nothing can enter.
- About the size of a cargo van and half again as long — measurements that nearly killed the plan.
- Left running on the southward track and ignored by the swarm, it becomes a silent portal-tipped battering ram and mobile trap.
- Driven straight into a sealed arena, used as a doorway through a wall by four passengers, and as the disposal chute for a god.
- Portal-equipped maintenance cart hauled onto the employee track to open the train's route to the abyss.