So, I’m walking home tonight through Encinitas and I see the northbound Coaster(commuter) train heading north about 100 yards ahead of the northbound Surfliner (Amtrak). How did they ever get so close?
My job and hobby let me know a fair amount about trains and signalling and such, but I couldn’t think of a scenario wherein a train can creep up on another train headed in the same direction. There should have been an “absolute stop” somewhere behind the Coaster, shouldn’t there have been?
Like I say, I know a fair amount about trains (and even drove one once) but this sight just has me flummoxed…