I had a very similar thought.<p>I&#x27;m surprised how many people are calling this &quot;beautiful&quot; and getting all misty eyed, this feels like an inelegant solution.<p>I would love to be wrong and hear that someone did the math and found that stopping the train wasn&#x27;t any more wasteful than just sending this girl a taxi or something, but I have some doubts.<p>I am unfamiliar with trains, but seeing how cars are tuning themselves off at stop lights now to conserve energy and avoid pollution it really sounds very wasteful stop a whole train for one person. I have to assume that it requires a lot of energy to slow and accelerate a train weighing in at least the tens and likely the hundreds of  tons.<p>It&#x27;s a sweet idea, but it really does feel misguided to me.