more fixes and tweaks
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@@ -726,3 +726,38 @@ The temptation is to rebuild everything at once. I would not.
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**Do not retune anything against current measurements.** Gap 12's numbers describe a placeholder
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ruleset. Re-measure after step 5 and treat everything before that as void.
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## §10 Q13 — rear-end collisions on a Mainline card are not implemented
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**Found by playing.** The Superintendent's §8.1 ruling asks whether one train may follow another onto
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an occupied Mainline card. Granting it is currently **free**: both trains cross, nothing collides, no
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penalty. Verified directly — two trains on one card, clearance granted, both alive and revenue
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unchanged.
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Two places in the rules say it should not be free:
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- **§10** — "A collision on a Mainline card is the fault of the Superintendent who cleared the trains
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out; he loses 5 Revenue points" and "**Train-on-train.** Both trains are immediately removed."
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- **ABS Signals** — "Trains on this card will not rear-end each other. They will stop short of a
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collision." A card whose entire purpose is preventing rear-enders presupposes that rear-enders
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happen.
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But **§8.3's trigger list does not include it.** The three automatic triggers are all about arriving
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at an Office or highballing past fouled track; none covers a follower catching a leader mid-card. So
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the rule is asserted in §10 and priced by ABS Signals, yet never given a trigger.
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The missing piece is **timing**, and it is a design decision rather than a transcription gap.
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Crossing is counted in Stages (Q1), so both trains simply run their counters down. Candidates:
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1. **On entry** — following onto an occupied card wrecks both at once. Makes clearance a pure gamble
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and ABS Signals very strong.
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2. **On catching up** — collide only when the follower's remaining Stages would take it past the
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leader. Rewards judging the gap, which is what a Superintendent actually does.
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3. **Never** — clearance is genuinely safe, §10's Mainline clause is vestigial, and ABS Signals is
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worth less than it reads.
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Until this is settled the clearance buttons describe only what the engine actually does — they say
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the train "closes up behind" rather than promising a −5 risk that cannot occur. Wording that invents
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a consequence is worse than wording that under-sells one.
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