+ Why wouldn't they work outside? It's
+ not like they're magically gonna come off the rails once they leave
+ the dome.
+ All of your trains are outfitted with fail-safe
+ emergency brakes. On power loss, you have about 15 seconds before they
+ are applied and the train comes to an abrupt, unscheduled halt.
+ You can't even tow these things without power.
+ I thought you said the tracks were in decent
+ shape? Why would the contacts? sliders?
+ come off the power rail for that long?
+ A) I didn't, I said they are in
+ surprisingly decent shape after being exposed to the elements
+ for a century without any maintenance. B) That power rail isn't
+ gonna be of any use because it doesn't deliver any power.
+
+ What do you mean? Why not?
+ Where does the rail get its power from?
+
+ The power grid.
+ Not quite, but close enough. What do we not
+ have outside?
+ Of course there is a power grid outside.
+ It's what powered the old world just as ours powers the city.
+
+ There used to be one, that much is correct,
+ but it hasn't been used or maintained in a century. Even if you did
+ somehow manage to get part of it working, I still wouldn't trust it.
+ And where would you wanna get the electricity to run it from?
+ From a substation. We fix up one of those and
+ use it to power the grid.
+ Great, now you have a local grid attached to
+ the high voltage grid. And what do you wanna power that with?
+ What? The substations make the power.
+ It's where all the power in the city comes from: Two substations
+ – one in the wall next to this airlock and the other one is by
+ the other airlock.
+ There is a third one deep below Central
+ Square. These are indeed where the electricity in the city comes from
+ but they don't make it. They get it from a power plant outside,
+ a bit northeast of here.
+ The dome powered by the outside world?
+ People be believing strange things these days...
+ I don't have to believe. I was there when
+ the city was built and, more recently, I helped replace a failing
+ generator at said power plant. You might have noticed the power
+ outage.
+ Uhuh, sure buddy. Since you've been doing
+ nothing but spewing nonsense all this time, I'm just gonna have one
+ of our guys drive a train up there and we'll see what happens.
+
+ I'll get some popcorn; watching this is
+ gonna be fun. Wouldn't be the first time a train got stuck in these
+ tunnels...
+
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