I'm playing with the automatic unit selection setting. So WHY one region have a different units? Boston to Providence measures distance in feet, while Boston to Worcester measures distance in yards. DTG, I have a suggestion for you: let's the third Boston route measures distance in meters!
Nah, I mean there should be a combo of all possible units of measurement to completely confuse players. You've already gotten used to the fact that you have to start braking 800 yards in advance on this locomotive with this train - here you have feet instead of yards, relearn. And then meters will be added, just to make sure your chair is warmed up. What I'm getting at is that since DTG has taken feet as a standard for this region, then let all routes in this region have feet.
I changed the imperial units to feet whilst still having the main setting on automatic and now all US routes show yards. That eliminates the inconsistent settings chosen by the route builders. I never liked the feet measurement anyway due to how far out it changes from miles to feet. 10,000 ft is too far out. When set to use yards it changes at 1,000 yards so why they didn’t choose 3,000 ft for the units swap is a mystery to me.
I could've sworn that older versions of TSW switched the distance units from miles to feet at 1.0 miles (i.e., 5280 feet), but in TSW 5 the Caltrain route switches at 10,000 feet. This is an oddly metric take on the imperial unit system.
