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If the trains were only coupled mechanically, how would a control station know to initiate emergency braking? What the OP describes sounds similar to the Crazy 8's incident in 2001, which the movie Unstoppable was based on.

I was at the new Wallingford station today, and noticed that on track 2 they have installed a set of switches and a parallel track bringing the trains stopping there (?Northbound side only) closer by about 18 inches.

My family moved from the countryside in southern CT, USA, to Hamden, within a few blocks of the Cedar Hill yard. The first night there in 1960, I heard train horns all night long, so as soon as I could, I rode my bike there one night and watched . . . and listened. I had also been exposed to freight...

Thanks, shadyjay. I moved to NoH in 1989, and had heard there was a station there, but I never saw the platforms. Now the mystery is solved!

Remember, there is a proposal to open up some new stations so in this case, such as North Haven(Amtrak used to stop there in the beginning). When did trains stoop at North Haven? Did they just stop at Devine St? Was there ever a station? I tried search, but "new haven" swamped the results.