And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:19:43 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> Though won't the double track also seem foreshortened?
>
> Yes, but the oncoming train will seem *more* foreshortened.
>
>> travelling so fast it'll just sail straight over the gap without  
>> falling far enough to get stuck.
>
> Not ... exactly. The problem isn't that he doesn't fall far enough. The  
> problem is that the bottom of the train starts falling before the top  
> does, kind of.
>
> And in that case, there are only two speeds involved (the track and the  
> train), rather than the three in Warp's original problem.

 From an outside observer's pov both trains are shorter then the double  
track so should pass without problem; I was trying to reconcile it with  
the traindrivers' view. The oncoming train is shorter, but so is the  
double track; so they should still collide?

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Phil Cook

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