Are these apparently conflicting speed limits a real world scenario?

[RobWed]

The speedboard says the limit is 100 but the lit number at the top of the signal says 60.

Could this be a real world scenario? If so, what would be a situation where this could occur.

I would like to change the number on the signal to match the speedboard but the instructions are all in German. Fair enough, it's a German sign, but I'm all about the Streckenhöchstgeschwindigkeit!
I can either get rid of the speed indicator altogether or have it with the slower speed. I think maybe it's interacting with something else.

 

[RobWed]

What I'd really like to do is be able to have the signal on my route layer and change the value on the speed indicator in the session depending on the scenario...

 

[JCitron]

You can have conflicting speeds.

The yellow signals indicate that an upcoming signal will be red. When this occurs, the AI will drive at half the posted or "normal speed".

 

[pware]

Could this be a real world scenario? If so, what would be a situation where this could occur.

"Conflicting" speed signs are common. Here in the Sydney suburban rail network, for example, a single speed post can have three different speed signs coloured blue, yellow and white. One is for suburban (commuter) trains, one for long distance express commuter trains and the third for freight and other trains. Sometimes all three show exactly the same speed, sometimes one is different, sometimes all three are different.

 

[Pendolino]

I'm no expert on German signalling, but I studied it for a session I made on the Niddertalbahn. The signal is showing a "proceed on a diverging route" aspect, so the "6" indicates the speed limit for that aspect (with no indicator, the default speed limit for a diverging route should be 40 kph).

As for "conflicting" speed limits, here in Italy most main lines have three, increasingly higher, speed limits: for freight trains, for local passenger trains and for long distance trains (just like in Australia at the other end of the world ).

 

[JCitron]

These are found in the Midwest and West in the US on the BNSF. They have a P and F indications on their speed limits with P for passenger trains being much faster than F for freight trains.