A Train Benchmarker

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zebediah49
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A Train Benchmarker

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This is a creation is more of meta-utility than in-game usefulness, but I thought it might be of interest to the people here. There has been a fair amount of examination of train speed maximums under various conditions, but as far as I know people have not particularly investigated train acceleration. This came up in a train performance thread, and I decided to fix it. Thus, I present the multi-purpose train benchmark
Overview of the train benchmarking system
Overview of the train benchmarking system
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The only mod-content used is nixie-tubes, for a convenient display. Any other method could be used instead. The big display counts off a lap counter, which I have primarily used for fuel-economy tests. The small counters are lap counters.
Theory of operation
If anyone wants to use this sort of scheme to do some of their own benchmarking, here's a blueprint string for it.
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FOR SCIENCE!

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