diff --git a/docs/APPLICATION.md b/docs/APPLICATION.md
index d0f8ad579..3aa85f72c 100644
--- a/docs/APPLICATION.md
+++ b/docs/APPLICATION.md
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ the last; a worded member (labels, entry face, look) that throws keeps its
 last good words.
 
 ```js
-import { getLocale, onLocaleChange } from '@gods-eye-view/core/i18n';
-import { pointAtS } from '@gods-eye-view/core/layers/rail/paths';
+import { getLocale, onLocaleChange } from 'gods-eye-view/i18n';
+import { pointAtS } from 'gods-eye-view/layers/rail/paths';
 
 const words = {
   en: { view: 'Ride view', exit: 'Exit ride view', exitText: 'EXIT RIDE' },
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ const ride = {
       }
     );
   },
+  // Only a train bound to its line can be ridden: read() needs its path.
+  isEntryAllowed: () => Boolean(rail.getSelectedTrain()?.path),
   hold: (id) => rail.setCockpitSubject(id),
   read(nowMs, ctx) {
     const train = rail.getCockpitSubject();
@@ -291,8 +293,12 @@ const ride = {
       latitude: point.lat,
       longitude: point.lon,
       heightM: train.position.railHeightM, // null stands it on the shared floor
+      name: train.label,
       headingDeg:
         train.path.direction < 0 ? point.bearingDeg + 180 : point.bearingDeg,
+      speedMps: train.motion.reportedSpeedMps ?? train.motion.derivedSpeedMps,
+      // The layer already moves the train smoothly: sit on it.
+      anchor: 'exact',
       eye: { upM: 3.5 },
     };
   },
@@ -309,7 +315,7 @@ createApplicationControls({ /* ... */ services: { cockpitSubjects: [ride] } });
 The `./i18n` entry gives `getLocale()` and `onLocaleChange()`:
 Core translates only its own strings, so a provider words its labels, entry
 face and HUD for the page's language (labels may be functions, as above; the
-HUD is read again on a change). `@gods-eye-view/core/layers/rail/paths` is the
+HUD is read again on a change). `gods-eye-view/layers/rail/paths` is the
 Rail layer's pure path module (`createRailPath`, `pointAtS`, `projectOnPath`)
 for a provider placing a train along its line. The frame, HUD view and
 candidate fields are documented in `src/cockpitSubjectProviders.js`; the Rail
diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index 54fdedbe0..9627e41d7 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -2241,7 +2241,8 @@ at most `COCKPIT_GROUND_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS`, after which the view ends and the
 subject is released: no height stands in for a floor never read), slews toward `headingDeg` at the provider's rate, and may
 turn off the floor clamps (`groundClamp: false`, for a subject inside a
 structure) or keep the anchor exactly on the subject (`anchor: 'exact'`, for a
-layer that already moves it smoothly); `cameraIntervalMs: 0` updates the
+layer that already moves it smoothly; a frame with no `speedMps` is always
+exact, since an inertial anchor runs on at the frame's speed); `cameraIntervalMs: 0` updates the
 camera every rendered frame. A frame that is null, malformed or for another
 subject ends the view (`restoreTracking: false`), as an aircraft tracked
 meanwhile and the provider's layer turning off do; the exit control asks the
@@ -2252,7 +2253,7 @@ picture under the HUD (with passing light streaks, which stop under reduced
 motion), arrow-key look-around when the provider asks for it, and a progress
 line along the bottom edge (`src/cockpitProgress.js`: close ticks merge,
 labels never overlap). Core translates none of the provider's text: a host
-words it for the page's language (`@gods-eye-view/core/i18n`:
+words it for the page's language (`gods-eye-view/i18n`:
 `getLocale`, `onLocaleChange`). Its entry face, labels and look may be
 functions, read again when they are shown and on a change of language, as the
 HUD view is.
@@ -2268,14 +2269,18 @@ feed held, clicks and Escape left to the view; the held copy stays the one
 drawn of its train while held, another feed's copy hidden, and it keeps
 moving, still selected, when its category is turned off) and
 `focusTrain(key)` (false for a train the layer does not draw); its pure path
-module is exported as `@gods-eye-view/core/layers/rail/paths`. That export
+module is exported as `gods-eye-view/layers/rail/paths`. That export
 and these read APIs are experimental and may change without notice. A snapshot read again while nothing in it changed is
 the one read before, and its `path.line` is a frozen copy. Transit
 offers the same for a vehicle (`getSelectedVehicle`, `getCockpitSubject`,
 `setCockpitSubject`, `focusVehicle`): a held vehicle keeps playing when it is
 out of the camera's view, and its sprite, 3D model, card, trail and detection
 box are hidden; released, it is out of play until a visibility sweep finds it in
-view. `docs/APPLICATION.md` (Cockpit subjects) shows a minimal provider. `src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs`,
+view. Its snapshot's `position.groundHeightM` is the floor where playback draws
+it (its segment's two reports' floors at the playback fraction), not the newest
+report's, and null while that floor is unknown. Rail's `path.direction` is the
+way the drawn train runs: once playback has placed it, a report that runs back
+turns it only when playback reaches that report. `docs/APPLICATION.md` (Cockpit subjects) shows a minimal provider. `src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs`,
 `src/cockpitSubjectProviders.test.mjs`, `src/cockpitProgress.test.mjs`,
 `src/layers/rail/cockpitSubject.test.mjs` and the Transit lifecycle tests
 cover them.
diff --git a/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.js b/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.js
index e7a8153b3..88b91e62c 100644
--- a/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.js
+++ b/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.js
@@ -337,7 +337,9 @@ function candidateOf(raw) {
  * A `heightM` that is not finite or lies outside
  * COCKPIT_SUBJECT_MIN_HEIGHT_M..COCKPIT_SUBJECT_MAX_HEIGHT_M reads as null:
  * the eye then stands on the shared floor, or where it last stood while that
- * is cold.
+ * is cold. The anchor is `'inertial'` only when asked for and the frame
+ * gives a speed; otherwise it is `'exact'`. An id is compared with `heldId`
+ * trimmed, as `cockpitSubjectCandidate` trims it.
  * @param {unknown} raw What `read()` returned.
  * @param {string} heldId The subject the view holds.
  * @returns {object|null} `{id, name, latitude, longitude, heightM, headingDeg,
@@ -354,7 +356,8 @@ export function cockpitSubjectFrame(raw, heldId) {
 }
 
 function frameOf(raw, heldId) {
-  if (!isObject(raw) || raw.id !== heldId) return null;
+  if (!isObject(raw) || typeof raw.id !== 'string' || raw.id.trim() !== heldId)
+    return null;
   const latitude = raw.latitude;
   const longitude = raw.longitude;
   if (!finite(latitude) || !finite(longitude) || Math.abs(latitude) > 90)
@@ -364,6 +367,8 @@ function frameOf(raw, heldId) {
   const heading = (value) =>
     finite(value) ? ((value % 360) + 360) % 360 : null;
   const headingDeg = heading(raw.headingDeg);
+  const speedMps =
+    finite(raw.speedMps) && raw.speedMps >= 0 ? raw.speedMps : null;
   return {
     id: heldId,
     name: cockpitSubjectText(raw.name, 64) || cockpitSubjectText(heldId, 64),
@@ -377,10 +382,12 @@ function frameOf(raw, heldId) {
         : null,
     headingDeg,
     courseDeg: heading(raw.courseDeg) ?? headingDeg,
-    speedMps: finite(raw.speedMps) && raw.speedMps >= 0 ? raw.speedMps : null,
+    speedMps,
     stale: raw.stale === true,
     groundClamp: raw.groundClamp !== false,
-    anchor: raw.anchor === 'exact' ? 'exact' : 'inertial',
+    // An inertial anchor runs on at the frame's speed; with none it would
+    // close on a moving subject at the correction's floor and fall behind.
+    anchor: raw.anchor === 'exact' || speedMps === null ? 'exact' : 'inertial',
     eye: {
       upM: eye.upM,
       forwardM:
diff --git a/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.test.mjs b/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.test.mjs
index fb97b93b6..2063cca41 100644
--- a/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.test.mjs
+++ b/src/cockpitSubjectProviders.test.mjs
@@ -196,9 +196,17 @@ test('a frame is the held subject at a finite place with an eye height, else nul
     speedMps: null,
     stale: false,
     groundClamp: true,
-    anchor: 'inertial',
+    // No speed to run an inertial anchor on: it sits on the subject.
+    anchor: 'exact',
     eye: { upM: 3.5, forwardM: 0, pitchDeg: 0, minClearanceM: 0 },
   });
+  assert.equal(
+    cockpitSubjectFrame(frame({ speedMps: 30 }), 'a1').anchor,
+    'inertial',
+    'with a speed it runs on',
+  );
+  // A held id is trimmed (cockpitSubjectCandidate), and so is a frame's.
+  assert.equal(cockpitSubjectFrame(frame({ id: ' a1 ' }), 'a1')?.id, 'a1');
   for (const bad of [
     null,
     frame({ id: 'other' }),
@@ -253,7 +261,10 @@ test('a frame is the held subject at a finite place with an eye height, else nul
     'a1',
   );
   assert.equal(loose.groundClamp, true);
-  assert.equal(loose.anchor, 'inertial');
+  assert.equal(
+    cockpitSubjectFrame(frame({ anchor: 'EXACT', speedMps: 5 }), 'a1').anchor,
+    'inertial',
+  );
   assert.equal(loose.courseDeg, 90);
   assert.equal(loose.speedMps, null);
 });
diff --git a/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.js b/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.js
index eb407d1d3..9eba452d3 100644
--- a/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.js
+++ b/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.js
@@ -63,10 +63,15 @@ function createBinding(shapeIndex, path, via, s, fix) {
     path,
     via,
     /**
-     * Which way the train runs along the shape: +1 along it, -1 against it,
-     * 0 until two reports or a playback segment tell. Kept until a rebind.
+     * Which way the drawn train runs along the shape: +1 along it, -1
+     * against it, 0 until two reports or a playback segment tell. Kept until
+     * a rebind. Once playback has placed the train, only playback changes
+     * it: the newest reports run ahead of the drawn train, so a reversal
+     * they show turns it when playback reaches it.
      */
     direction: 0,
+    /** The direction the last placed playback segment ran, 0 before one. */
+    drawDirection: 0,
     /** Arc and time of the newest report. */
     fixS: s,
     fixT: fix.t,
@@ -154,7 +159,8 @@ export function followFix(binding, fix) {
     pathWindowM(fix.t - binding.fixT),
   );
   if (!hit || hit.offsetM > PATH_OFF_TRACK_M) return false;
-  binding.direction = directionOf(hit.s - binding.fixS, binding.direction);
+  if (!binding.drawDirection)
+    binding.direction = directionOf(hit.s - binding.fixS, binding.direction);
   binding.fixS = hit.s;
   binding.fixT = fix.t;
   binding.fixLat = fix.lat;
@@ -246,8 +252,13 @@ export function placeOnPath(binding, sample, segment, out) {
     cache.sFrom = sFrom;
     cache.sTo = sTo;
     cache.ok = Number.isFinite(sFrom) && Number.isFinite(sTo);
-    if (cache.ok)
-      binding.direction = directionOf(sTo - sFrom, binding.direction ?? 0);
+    if (cache.ok) {
+      binding.drawDirection = directionOf(
+        sTo - sFrom,
+        binding.drawDirection || binding.direction || 0,
+      );
+      binding.direction = binding.drawDirection;
+    }
   }
   if (!cache.ok) return false;
   const f = Number.isFinite(sample.fraction)
diff --git a/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.test.mjs b/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.test.mjs
index 79aee4bce..7b9e11c0c 100644
--- a/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/rail/pathBinding.test.mjs
@@ -234,3 +234,31 @@ test('a binding learns which way its train runs, and keeps it through a stop', (
   );
   assert.equal(rebound?.direction ?? 0, 0);
 });
+
+test('a report that runs back turns the drawn train only when playback does', () => {
+  const p = pack();
+  const ids = { tripId: 'full', routeId: 'main' };
+  const binding = bindTrainPath(p, ids, fix(0, 300, 0));
+  const forward = {
+    from: { seq: 1, ...fix(0, 300, 0) },
+    to: { seq: 2, ...fix(10_000, 500, 0) },
+  };
+  const sample = (fraction) => ({ fromSeq: 1, toSeq: 2, fraction });
+  assert.ok(placeOnPath(binding, sample(0.2), forward, {}));
+  assert.equal(binding.direction, 1);
+  // The newest report lies behind the last one (a reversal, or GPS jitter)
+  // while playback still draws the forward segment.
+  assert.ok(followFix(binding, fix(10_000, 500, 0)));
+  assert.ok(followFix(binding, fix(20_000, 450, 0)));
+  assert.ok(placeOnPath(binding, sample(0.6), forward, {}));
+  assert.equal(binding.direction, 1, 'the drawn train still runs forward');
+  // Playback reaches the reversed segment: now it turns.
+  const back = {
+    from: { seq: 2, ...fix(10_000, 500, 0) },
+    to: { seq: 3, ...fix(20_000, 450, 0) },
+  };
+  assert.ok(
+    placeOnPath(binding, { fromSeq: 2, toSeq: 3, fraction: 0.5 }, back, {}),
+  );
+  assert.equal(binding.direction, -1);
+});
diff --git a/src/layers/transit/cockpitSubject.js b/src/layers/transit/cockpitSubject.js
index b0e8a64c0..556c50ab8 100644
--- a/src/layers/transit/cockpitSubject.js
+++ b/src/layers/transit/cockpitSubject.js
@@ -77,6 +77,25 @@ export function createTransitCockpitSubject({ state, parts, services }) {
     return reuse(previous, next);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The floor under the vehicle where playback draws it: its segment's two
+   * reports' floors at the playback fraction, without the shared lift. Null
+   * while either floor is unknown, as on cold terrain, so a view waits for
+   * the surface. Not `entry.heightM`, the floor at the newest report, which
+   * playback has not reached yet.
+   */
+  function drawnFloorOf(entry) {
+    const segment = entry.segment;
+    if (!segment || entry.heightPending) return null;
+    const from = segment.from?.h;
+    const to = segment.to?.h;
+    if (!Number.isFinite(from) || !Number.isFinite(to)) return null;
+    const f = Number.isFinite(segment.fraction)
+      ? Math.max(0, Math.min(1, segment.fraction))
+      : 1;
+    return from + (to - from) * f - liftM;
+  }
+
   /** The vehicle as a frozen snapshot (see the module comment), or null. */
   function vehicleView(entry) {
     if (!entry?.record) return null;
@@ -91,9 +110,7 @@ export function createTransitCockpitSubject({ state, parts, services }) {
     const position = draft.position;
     position.latitude = finiteOrNull(sample?.lat) ?? record.lat;
     position.longitude = finiteOrNull(sample?.lon) ?? record.lon;
-    position.groundHeightM = Number.isFinite(entry.heightM)
-      ? entry.heightM - liftM
-      : null;
+    position.groundHeightM = drawnFloorOf(entry);
     position.atMs = finiteOrNull(sample?.displayT);
 
     const motion = draft.motion;
diff --git a/src/layers/transit/lifecycle.test.mjs b/src/layers/transit/lifecycle.test.mjs
index 69b752b99..9f0bae557 100644
--- a/src/layers/transit/lifecycle.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/transit/lifecycle.test.mjs
@@ -753,6 +753,27 @@ test('disable aborts in-flight work and a response that lands late is ignored',
   assert.equal(app.vehicles().length, 1);
 });
 
+test('a held vehicle with no floor yet tells its view no height', async (t) => {
+  // Not the ellipsoid: a first-person view waits for the surface instead.
+  const app = harness(t, { floorAt: () => undefined });
+  app.serve('mbta', () => ({
+    status: 200,
+    body: snapshot(
+      'mbta',
+      'MBTA',
+      [vehicle('bus-1', 42.36, -71.06, Date.now() / 1000)],
+      { fetchedAt: Date.now() },
+    ),
+  }));
+  app.layer.enable(app.viewer);
+  await app.layer.update();
+  app.settle();
+  const entry = app.vehicles()[0];
+  assert.equal(entry.heightPending, true, 'it has nothing to stand on');
+  assert.ok(app.layer.setCockpitSubject(entry.key) !== false);
+  assert.equal(app.layer.getCockpitSubject().position.groundHeightM, null);
+});
+
 test('a vehicle waits for its floor rather than standing on the ellipsoid', async (t) => {
   // The shared ground-floor system answers from the rendered mesh cell or the
   // real DEM cell; until one of them is warm there is no honest height to draw
@@ -1800,11 +1821,19 @@ test('a segment climbs from the ground it left to the ground it reaches', async
   assert.ok(Math.abs(entry.heightM - 101.5) < 1, 'the destination is uphill');
   const height = () =>
     Cesium.Cartographic.fromCartesian(entry.marker.position).height;
+  // A first-person view reads the floor where the vehicle is drawn, not the
+  // newest report's floor uphill.
+  app.layer.setCockpitSubject(entry.key);
+  const floor = () => app.layer.getCockpitSubject().position.groundHeightM;
   app.run(400);
   assert.ok(
     height() < 30,
     `still on the ground it is drawn on, got ${height().toFixed(1)} m`,
   );
+  assert.ok(
+    Math.abs(floor() + 1.5 - height()) < 1,
+    `its snapshot stands where it is drawn, got ${floor().toFixed(1)} m`,
+  );
 
   // Halfway along the segment it is halfway up; at the end, on the high ground.
   const firstFixAt = start - AGE_MS;
@@ -1818,6 +1847,7 @@ test('a segment climbs from the ground it left to the ground it reaches', async
     Math.abs(height() - 101.5) < 1.5,
     `and arrives on the high ground, got ${height().toFixed(1)} m`,
   );
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(floor() - 100) < 1.5, 'and so does its snapshot');
 });
 test('a lone impossible fix leaves the displayed vehicle and health untouched', async (t) => {
   const app = harness(t, { floorAt: () => 5 });
diff --git a/src/ui/cockpitInput.js b/src/ui/cockpitInput.js
index c3a982f92..9574068ce 100644
--- a/src/ui/cockpitInput.js
+++ b/src/ui/cockpitInput.js
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ function subjectWorldPosition(kind) {
   }
   if (kind === 'satellite')
     return this.services.satellitesLayer?.getCockpitPosition?.() ?? null;
+  // An application's subject has no position before its view is entered:
+  // the selected vessel's sprite must not stand in for it.
+  if (kind !== 'vessel') return null;
   const info = this.readVesselInfo();
   if (!Number.isFinite(info?.latitude) || !Number.isFinite(info?.longitude))
     return null;
diff --git a/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs b/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
index fd0290c4f..e8549442f 100644
--- a/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
+++ b/src/ui/cockpitSubjectView.test.mjs
@@ -1114,6 +1114,28 @@ test('a subject first seen together with a built-in one comes after it', async (
   assert.equal(store.presence.entryKind, 'vessel');
 });
 
+test("a double-click on the selected vessel does not enter an application's subject", async (t) => {
+  const clock = manualClock(t, 10_000);
+  const ride = subjectProvider();
+  ride.subject.candidate = null;
+  const { cockpit, store, viewer } = fixture(t, {
+    providers: [ride],
+    vessel: VESSEL,
+  });
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  // The application's subject is selected after the vessel: it takes entry.
+  clock.advance(500);
+  ride.subject.candidate = { id: 'a1', name: 'Example 12', selectedAt: 1 };
+  cockpit.syncEntry();
+  assert.equal(cockpit.resolveEntryKind(), 'example-kind');
+  // Every world position lands under the pointer, the vessel's sprite too.
+  viewer.scene.cartesianToCanvasCoordinates = (_position, result = {}) =>
+    Object.assign(result, { x: 400, y: 300 });
+  assert.equal(cockpit.onSceneDoubleClick({ x: 400, y: 300 }), false);
+  await settle();
+  assert.notEqual(store.presence.active, true);
+});
+
 test('a provider view with look turns with the arrow keys and words its readout', async (t) => {
   const clock = manualClock(t, 10_000);
   const ride = subjectProvider();