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Unless they do.
Even if you hit emergency stop, they don’t stop like a car. They take a while to slow down.
Here are some trains nerds talking about e brake times.
https://www.railroad.net/braking-deceleration-distance-or-time-of-wmata-trains-t164252.html
I was thinking more like a crash or something...
Which is pretty rare for a commuter train system with tracks that are often underground or raised above road traffic.
Especially since I think this is in the Denver airport where the trains are all computer controlled and going in a loop
E: ah I was wrong, but the comment still applies to the ones in Denver