I'm currently in free mode on the Kinzigtal to find out something and suddenly there's this AI train at the station I'm a little confused because I've never seen this on any track Or is that normal I'm confused
That came up in another thread- apparently that's two services that run joined together for a bit, then split and go their separate ways.
Wtf? But well, then I seem to have overlooked that but it is still strange how it is put together. I would understand if the cab car is behind the locomotive, but not behind the wagon.
It's not. These are simply two extra cars that are added to some RE50 sets at rush hour. The train stays like this the whole journey. Adding the coaches in front of the cab car is just easier and faster than taking the cab car off and shuffling it around, and you need the second loco anyway to keep the timetable with the extra load. This is completely accurate, except that the locos have substitution enabled, so TSW sometimes gives you a 146 on one end and a 114 on the other end of the train... these are very much incompatible with one another. Similar formations for two services that split up later is actually a thing in Frankfurt though, but that happens on the Main-Weser-Bahn, not the line to Fulda, and just twice a day. Those trains are made up of a class 246 diesel loco, a cab car, three coaches, cab car, three coaches, and another 246. They split the train in Bad Vilbel; the front portion goes to Stockheim via the Niddertalbahn, the rear portion continues to Nidda via Friedberg.
