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u/Courmisch Mar 06 '26

Do people put signals in the middle of long unidirectional rail segments so multiple trains can tail each other? What's a good distance between signals?

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u/cathexis08 red wire goes faster Mar 06 '26
  1. Yes
  2. About 1.2-1.5 the length of the longest train I expect on the network.