The largest Compact frame left the enclosure on day 1103, after the crew widened the turn with ordinary timber and three hours of paid work.
Iven watched from the road keeper’s shelter.
He had seen the apparatus save First Vent. Its mass had seemed easier to understand while it stood still, waiting to answer a damaged system. Moving it made the cost visible in another way: two teams, a braking crew, spare blocks, a broad carrying bed and workers who had already walked the route to mark the places where its weight could go.
Leva stood beside the leading bogie.
She did not let the driver start when the first signal came. A worker was still beneath the side rail, pulling the last loose handling rope out of the wheel path. She waited until he showed both hands from the clear side. Then she gave the move call.
The frame rolled forward with a deep creak.
At the narrowed turn, Venn placed his right forearm graft against a fixed service pad on the carrying bed. Counterweight took a measured connected share across the sound support. The load did not vanish. The timber beneath the rear bogie still accepted weight, and the braking crew still controlled the descent. A pulse damper reduced the motor’s transmitted chatter through the handrail where a worker needed to keep a steady grip.
