Is there a way to make angel's smelting work without all of the bob's mods?

Why not have a pipe segment with a walkable surface, like a catwalk?

What I'm doing is building up a much larger factory around a central staging area on the railworld setting, and I feel like I get lost or confused on what needs to do next. Progress is always slow for me once the game picks up pace.

What are some tips for getting through the awful slog of having to reposition everything (or a large number of things) in an area?

Exactly what it says on the tin, does loading items or fluids onto a train make it any slower?

How do I speedily load/unload a fluid wagon? It always takes like a minute for me.

Easy enough: opening a blueprint will tell you how many raw resources/intermediates it requires to build entirely. Additionally, shift + left clicking on a component in the total should also craft that many in your inventory.

This is pretty simple; a flatbed wagon used to load vehicles. When parked, ramps along the long sides of the wagon would unfold, allowing access to vehicles. When moving, the ramps would fold up and vehicles would be unable to move on the wagon if a player is inside. A wagon carrying two cars would ...

Pretty much exactly what it says: This research gives your locomotives more horsepower, so less locomotives are needed to pull the same number of wagons.

I am experiencing this issue myself, but I am running 2048MB ATI AMD Radeon 5450. I'm not sure what is causing this issue myself.

Being able to read the contents of the locomotives with the circuit network may also be useful. However, this should be disabled by default, because normally you are only interested in the contents of the train's cargo and not its locomotives. Some people might want to create a central fueling depo...

This idea is pretty simple: a new wait condition that would make a train wait until the inventory of its locomotive(s) are full of fuel(s).

What does it mean by "train penalty"? Is it a penalty to braking distance when driving the vehicle?

How do I use the new train tutorials?

I created an account on factorio.com and linked it with my stem account, but the mod portal still won't log me in.