Last summer when I was on ID, we were just pulling out of the station when all of a sudden they did an emergency stop because a little girl behind me had a problem with her harness. Well anyway, after we got going again and up the lift, I could see the other train still sitting on the 2nd lift and not moving. After we cleared the 1st lift, I was beginning to worry that if that other train doesn't start moving soon, we were going to smash into it. Well as my train approached the 2nd lift, that other train was still there and not moving. Fortunately, there happens to be a brake run before the 2nd lift incline which brought us to an abrupt halt. After about a brief moment, the train on the 2nd lift started moving again and then we advanced to the 2nd lift and sat there until the other train cleared the final brakes.
My question is why does CP need to slow down the train on 1st lift as long as the last car on the other train is already on the 2nd lift? The way that it is set up now is that a train has to completely clear the 2nd lift before the train on the 1st lift can proceed. If an entire train is on the 2nd lift, and there is a brake run before the 2nd lift, why slow down the train on the 1st lift?