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by TylerE 707 days ago
I'm not even sure derailments is the worst flaw.

As soon as one train has to slow down, you're going to get the mother of all cascading effects - trains are slow to brake, but their acceleration is quite a bit slower than that, and you'll be limited to, at the very best, the acceleration of the slowest train in front of you.