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[quote user="CMStPnP"]Meaning, the line would be clear of passenger trains before they sent a freight train through. The Germans were real careful of that with their dispatching.[/quote] The passenger trains have absolute priority in Germany. The passenger trains run according their schedule and freight trains are fitted in between when ever possible. DB tries to run freight trains at about the average passenger train speed to minimize interference. There are meets, overtakings, and crossings. As we have a lot of pssenger trains many freight trains run at night when passenger traffic is lighter. A much larger difference is that DB has ATS safety systems (PZB and LZB) since 1930 (LZB since mid 1990s). So hopefully PTC will help to keep trains separated. The style of operation is different but doesn't play a role in crashworthiness. The American rules require to make a vehicle as rigid as suitable, an approach the automobile industry let behind in the 1960s. And as I have shown above the results are not as good as most here think, they are worse than CEM standards. Regards, Volker
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