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Yep. They routinely run fairly long trains over the Lotschberg and Gotthard lines through the base tunnels that I’m pretty certain are approaching 256 axles, bu
by kposehn 7y ago
Yep. They routinely run fairly long trains over the Lotschberg and Gotthard lines through the base tunnels that I’m pretty certain are approaching 256 axles, but I have yet to see any with more.
Most likely the main transalpine lines now allows >256 axles while other secondary lines have not been upgraded.
- SkyPuncher 7y agoTrains longer than 256 aren't the issue as the numbers roll over. The problem is trains with exactly 256 axles (or a multiple of 256), they're seen as zero.
- dTal 7y agoNot an expert, but I imagine it could still cause some routing problems if a 258-axle train were mis-registered as a 2-axle train; the latter takes up dramatically more space on the network.
- dwild 7y agoConsidering that a train can require 2 km to break, I'm sure they keep enough space between trains that there's plenty of space for both 258 or 2 axles trains. Knowing a train is there seems much more important than its lengths (up until they decide that 2 axles trains can be much closer to another trains).