  This paper presents the results of a nearly two year long campaign to detect
and analyze meteor persistent trains (PTs) - self-emitting phenomena which can
linger up to an hour after their parent meteor. The modern understanding of PTs
has been primarily developed from the Leonid storms at the turn of the century;
our goal was to assess the validity of these conclusions using a diverse sample
of meteors with a wide range of velocities and magnitudes. To this end,
year-round observations were recorded by the Widefield Persistent Train camera,
2nd edition (WiPT2) and were passed through a pipeline to filter out airplanes
and flag potential meteors. These were classified by visual inspection based on
the presence and duration of trains. Observed meteors were cross-referenced
with the Global Meteor Network (GMN) database, which independently detects and
calculates meteor parameters, enabling statistical analysis of PT-leaving
meteors. There were 4726 meteors codetected by the GMN, with 636 of these
leaving trains. Among these were a large population of slow, dim meteors that
left PTs; these slower meteors had a greater train production rate relative to
their faster counterparts. Unlike prior research, we did not find a clear
magnitude cutoff or a strong association with fast meteor showers.
Additionally, we note several interesting trends not previously reported, which
include PT eligibility being primarily determined by a meteor's terminal height
and an apparent dynamical origin dependence that likely reflects physical
meteoroid properties.
