Make Half-Diagonal Rails into Two Blocks

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Make Half-Diagonal Rails into Two Blocks

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Split half-digonal rails, which are currently a single rail block, into two different blocks which are placed at the same time, so that signals can split them in half.



Currently, half-diagonal rails are one unusually long block, which results in strange and unintuitive behavior like the intersection shown on the right, where placing signals does not separate the rail into blocks near the location of the signal. If half-diagonal rails had two rail collision boxes and could be split in the middle, then all the strange behavior would go away and half-diagonal rails would be more similar to the other types instead of acting like a double-length rail.
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Proposed change: four more signal locations allow us to split blocks in the expected places, allowing more intersections to be created and removing the unintuitive and unpolished behavior.
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