This is officially my favorite completed thread.

being from a medieval society, for all Ivy knows all trains are like this

SURPRISE TELEPROT.

Nita knows they are not, but even the New York subways have never pulled this!

(The short story Uptown Local is nebulously canon, but Nita+Kit do visit alternate Earths by using it. Fun stuff!)

Next time they meet (whether we thread it out or not), they should compare notes.