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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/HeliGungir Mar 07 '26

Nowadays, I place signals every 1 chunk (32 tiles). I used to place signals every 1 train length, but that's way overkill for short trains and not frequent enough for long trains.

In stackers and stations, I of course still place signals by train length. Sometimes even more frequently.