Clearance at the Umbrella Stand

Ground mainline clearance resumed along the baseboard toward the apartment corridor. Approaching the umbrella stand, a plastic receipt coiled into a loose spiral lay across the timber seam like a collapsed tunnel arch. Visual inspection complete: clearance two inches, structural resistance minimal. I applied steady half throttle to all four wheel sets. My flat wooden front entered the lightweight cylinder smoothly, pushing the coiled paper along the floorboards until it unrolled into a flat white path. Traversal completed without derailment, track verified clear.