diff --git a/docs/APPLICATION.md b/docs/APPLICATION.md
index 2c166603d..17579a19c 100644
--- a/docs/APPLICATION.md
+++ b/docs/APPLICATION.md
@@ -317,11 +317,12 @@ Rail and Transit read APIs (`getSelectedTrain`, `getSelectedVehicle`,
 are experimental and may change without notice.
 
 A candidate's `selectedAt` is a token that changes each time the user selects
-the subject, even the same one again, so entry counts it as selected then. The
-Rail and Transit snapshots give one, `selectedAtMs`: when the user last
-selected the train or vehicle by a click or `focusTrain`/`focusVehicle`. It is
-null after a deselection and for one selected only by a hold, since a hold is
-not the user's selection.
+the subject, even the same one again, so entry counts it as selected then; a
+new `id` under the same token is the same selection (a train's selection
+moving to another feed's copy of it). The Rail and Transit snapshots give one,
+`selectedAtMs`: when the user last selected the train or vehicle by a click or
+`focusTrain`/`focusVehicle`. It is null after a deselection and for one
+selected only by a hold, since a hold is not the user's selection.
 
 A frame with `heightM: null` stands on the shared floor, or where it last
 stood while that floor is cold. If no height has been known since entry, the
diff --git a/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.js b/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.js
index d5da933ec..762ff9aa6 100644
--- a/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.js
+++ b/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.js
@@ -29,14 +29,39 @@ const NO_STOPS = Object.freeze([]);
 /** Each stops list's frozen copy for a snapshot's `stops` (stopsOf). */
 const stopLists = new WeakMap();
 
+/** Whether `copy` still holds each of `list`'s stops, field by field. */
+function sameStops(copy, list) {
+  if (copy.length !== list.length) return false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
+    const stop = list[i];
+    const kept = copy[i];
+    if (
+      !stop ||
+      typeof stop !== 'object' ||
+      !kept ||
+      typeof kept !== 'object'
+    ) {
+      if (!Object.is(stop, kept)) return false;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const names = Object.keys(stop);
+    if (names.length !== Object.keys(kept).length) return false;
+    for (const name of names)
+      if (!Object.is(stop[name], kept[name])) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 /**
  * A trip's stops as a snapshot hands them out: a frozen array of frozen
- * copies, made once per list the stops provider returns.
+ * copies, kept per list the stops provider returns while that list still
+ * holds the same stops, so a provider that updates its list in place is
+ * copied again.
  */
 function stopsOf(list) {
   if (!Array.isArray(list)) return NO_STOPS;
   let stops = stopLists.get(list);
-  if (!stops) {
+  if (!stops || !sameStops(stops, list)) {
     stops = Object.freeze(
       list.map((stop) =>
         stop && typeof stop === 'object' ? Object.freeze({ ...stop }) : stop,
@@ -258,7 +283,9 @@ export function createRailCockpitSubject({
      * Hold the train `key` for a first-person view, or release the hold with
      * null. A train it holds is selected, if it was not already.
      * @param {string|null} key
-     * @returns {boolean} False for a train the layer does not show.
+     * @returns {boolean} False for a key the layer does not list. A listed
+     *   train is held even when its category is off or another feed's copy
+     *   is drawn: the held copy is then the one drawn. Releasing returns true.
      */
     setCockpitSubject(key) {
       const previous = state._trains.get(state._cockpitSubjectKey);
diff --git a/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.test.mjs b/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.test.mjs
index a23ec3bc3..172cf3b56 100644
--- a/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.test.mjs
@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ test('a snapshot read again while nothing changed is the one read before', async
     later.stops.map((stop) => stop.name),
     ['Delta', 'Echo'],
   );
+  // A provider that updates its list in place: the stops are copied again.
+  list[0].state = 'passed';
+  app.run(STOP_REFRESH_MS);
+  const updated = app.layer.getSelectedTrain();
+  assert.notEqual(updated.stops, later.stops);
+  assert.equal(updated.stops[0].state, 'passed');
+  assert.equal(app.layer.getSelectedTrain().stops, updated.stops);
 });
 
 test('a snapshot’s line is a frozen copy: writing to it leaves the layer’s line', async (t) => {
diff --git a/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs b/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
index 59ec07dc9..e988fd80e 100644
--- a/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
+++ b/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
@@ -1049,6 +1049,41 @@ test('the built-in kinds keep their order; a subject takes entry only when selec
   assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'aircraft');
 });
 
+test('a new id under the same selectedAt is not a new selection', async (t) => {
+  const clock = manualClock(t, 10_000);
+  const ride = subjectProvider();
+  ride.subject.candidate = { id: 'a1', name: 'Example 12', selectedAt: 1 };
+  const { cockpit, trackAircraft } = fixture(t, { providers: [ride] });
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'example-kind');
+  // An aircraft tracked after it takes entry.
+  clock.advance(500);
+  trackAircraft(TRACKED_AIRCRAFT);
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'aircraft');
+  // The selection moves to another copy of the same subject: same token.
+  clock.advance(500);
+  ride.subject.candidate = { id: 'b1', name: 'Example 12', selectedAt: 1 };
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'aircraft');
+  // A new token is a new selection.
+  clock.advance(500);
+  ride.subject.candidate = { id: 'b1', name: 'Example 12', selectedAt: 2 };
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'example-kind');
+  // Without a token, a new id is a new selection.
+  clock.advance(500);
+  trackAircraft(null);
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  trackAircraft(TRACKED_AIRCRAFT);
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'aircraft');
+  clock.advance(500);
+  ride.subject.candidate = { id: 'c1', name: 'Example 3' };
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'example-kind');
+});
+
 test('a subject first seen together with a built-in one comes after it', async (t) => {
   manualClock(t, 10_000);
   const ride = subjectProvider();
diff --git a/src/ui/cockpitTrackingController.js b/src/ui/cockpitTrackingController.js
index 7367c10f6..8327d5a07 100644
--- a/src/ui/cockpitTrackingController.js
+++ b/src/ui/cockpitTrackingController.js
@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ const BUILT_IN_ENTRY_ORDER = Object.freeze({
  * takes it back. Providers' candidates are ordered most recently selected
  * first, then by priority. A candidate's time is when this controller first
  * saw it (it looks on its entry cadence and on tracking changes), or saw it
- * selected again (a provider candidate whose `selectedAt` changes). One
+ * selected again: another subject of a built-in kind, a provider candidate
+ * whose `selectedAt` changes, or one without a `selectedAt` whose id changes.
+ * A new id under the same `selectedAt` is the same selection, as when a
+ * train's selection moves to another feed's copy of it. One
  * first seen together with a built-in candidate comes after it. With no
  * provider, entry is the built-in order alone. Each carries `allowed()`, its
  * kind's entry gate.
@@ -123,8 +126,16 @@ export function entryCandidates(nowMs = performance.now()) {
   const list = [];
   const note = (kind, id, entry, selectedAt = null) => {
     const last = seen.get(kind);
-    if (!last || last.id !== id || last.selectedAt !== selectedAt)
+    // A provider's token says when its subject was selected: a new id under
+    // the same token (a train handed to another feed's copy of it) is not a
+    // new selection. Without a token, a new id is.
+    if (
+      !last ||
+      last.selectedAt !== selectedAt ||
+      (selectedAt === null && last.id !== id)
+    )
       seen.set(kind, { id, selectedAt, atMs: nowMs });
+    else if (last.id !== id) seen.set(kind, { ...last, id });
     list.push({ kind, id, seenAtMs: seen.get(kind).atMs, ...entry });
   };
   const aircraft = this.readAircraftInfo();