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Title

1. Starts with the version number of the latest version you had experienced the issue with in square brackets: [0.12.22]
   Do NOT use a range of versions: [0.12.XX] or [12.19 to 12.22]
   For issues on the Nintendo Switch add [switch] after the version: [0.12.22][switch]
2. What happened and in what context: Crash when setting train schedule. Bad: Game crashed

Description

1. What did you do?
2. What happened?
3. What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
4. Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
5. If you can reproduce the issue provide the exact steps!

Be precise! When i click with the mouse on Quit in the main menu... Not: When I close the game.

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• log-file for every report!
• save-file for any save file dependent issue
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• screenshots, gifs, videos, anything that helps to describe the issue
• when reporting Performance problems provide the debug overlay screenshots requested there

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