Trains that decouple and recouple
Submitted by brad on Wed, 2004-05-12 19:25I've often wondered why, when you have an electric train line that has a terminus as the main destination, you can't give everybody an express train.
To do this, imagine for the commute home, a 5 car train starts downtown. It leaves and expresses a few stops down the line. (A local car leaves after to handle the stops close to downtown.) When it gets to point one, with sufficient warnings and many safeguards, it decouples, and the rear car brakes to stop at the first of its stations.