Exactly! And what complicates that specific dance of trains at just after 4 PM each day is that you have a San Joaquin arriving at Oakland from Bakersfield, a Capitol arriving from Sacramento and departing for San Jose, and a deadheading trainset from the Oakland Yard arriving that then turns around and becomes a Capitol heading for Sacramento. All of these trains must come down a 1-mile stretch of 10 mph street running, and the three trains must share two platforms (two of them park on the same platform, with a gap between them to allow passengers to access the other platform since all connections are at street level).
When the San Jose-bound Capitol is more than about five minutes late to Martinez, it gets stuck behind the two other trains. (The actual schedule puts it ahead of them.) This scrambles things up down the line and doesn't sort out until Oakland Jack London Square, which is what happened yesterday.
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:55 pm (UTC)When the San Jose-bound Capitol is more than about five minutes late to Martinez, it gets stuck behind the two other trains. (The actual schedule puts it ahead of them.) This scrambles things up down the line and doesn't sort out until Oakland Jack London Square, which is what happened yesterday.