Vermillion Line

the Vermillion · Terminus Direct

A powered, wreckage-free 'Terminus Direct' rail line that runs its whole length in a day — the route to the trapped thousand at station 101.

Story so far

The Vermillion line is one of The Iron Tangle's colored lines, but a special one: a "Terminus Direct" that, per the gremlin Widget's hints, runs its entire length in about a day. Crucially it still has power and — because its ghoul-transport train never actually ran — no wreckage on the track. Hekla's Daughters commandeered that idle train (three passenger cars plus ghoul-cargo containers) and a second engine to run it in reverse.

It leads to station 101, where a thousand crawlers, including Li Jun's crew, are boxed in by mobs from two feeder platforms while a massive ghoul horde advances up the line; the nearest stairwell is 150 km away at station 72, itself guarded by a ghoul generator. It is the artery of Hekla's rescue plan.

Appearance

A powered, wreckage-free subway line running vermillion-marked cars its full length in a day; station 101 is a besieged three-line junction on it.

Role

The direct, still-running rail line that is the route to and from the trapped thousand at station 101.

Relationships

The Iron Tangle — One of the floor's colored lines, a rare wreckage-free 'Terminus Direct.'

Hekla — Whose team seized its idle train for the rescue.

Li Jun — Trapped with a thousand crawlers at its station 101.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 21

A powered, wreckage-free 'Terminus Direct' rail line that runs its whole length in a day — the route to the trapped thousand at station 101.