<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Rail on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/rail/</link><description>Recent content in Rail on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/rail/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>All Aboard 2: The Banister</title><link>/stories/2017/12/02/all-aboard-2-the-banister/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2017/12/02/all-aboard-2-the-banister/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;story continues from &lt;a href="allaboard.html"&gt;part one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 2: The Banister&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Only a week after Alicia&amp;rsquo;s train ride, she was at it again. This time she was planning to use a gravity ride called &amp;ldquo;The Tortoise&amp;rdquo; to satisfy her desires. She was all set to begin her three minute trial run. Once that had been completed she planned on making a few additional changes, changes which would allow her to ride the ride for its full length.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Trains</title><link>/stories/2015/11/09/trains/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2015/11/09/trains/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;WARNING
Do &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; try this at home, the story is presented here as a &lt;strong&gt;fantasy only&lt;/strong&gt;,
to attempt this in real life may result in injury or death.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was fortunate to live near enough to a train&amp;rsquo;s spur line used for parking freight cars, actually fortune had little to do with it as I selected this rental specifically. It wasa somewhat short hike over the mountain from my present house, close enough to hear the train&amp;rsquo;s impossibly loudhorns when the wind was right, but unfortunately far enough away that I couldn&amp;rsquo;tfeel the rumble of their passage there. I had grown up near a set of heavily used tracks, their rumble becoming a common and welcome sound at night that might have disturbed the sleep of most normal people.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>