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Basically the one steam engine with two overlapping power-lines connected through power switches causes the load on that steam engine to double.

Below are images of the bug. The upper two steam engines are counted twice, the bottom counted once. The difference is the upper engines have overlapping lines branching from power switches.
It's not just the performance bar that's greater on the upper two, the engine's animations are faster as well.

(Joining the two lies together corrects the behavior.)
PS: Save attached. No mods needed.

I can confirm the load is higher if the machine is in two networks.
But I only get a load 1.27 times as high as of the ones only in one network. If I compare one machine in 2 networks with another in 1 network I get a load ration of 1.375.
It is not a pure visual error, its a logical one btw.
You can increase it further by putting it in even more networks all connected to a switch...

Still a prob in 13.5. Title edited.

Thanks for the report,

I managed to reproduce the issue:

Fixed for 0.13.11