A lot of Factoriates would probably agree that it is pretty easy to launch a rocket, and really doesn't take that much time or map space once you have a sound understanding of the game and are using blueprints efficiently etc. I didn't need trains really on my first play through, however, if you ...

I have setup 2 largish mining outposts (copper and iron with 118 and 150 drills) to supply 120 electric smelters of each ore, I setup 3 trains with 4 wagons for each and I can anecdotally proclaim that stack inserters with full bonus and trains with 4 wagons move a crazy amount of ore in very short ...

thank you so much for the help, it will make it even more interesting to get things all sorted! All this combinator stuff is a bit of a test for me at the moment, but it looks like a good time to learn.. thanks for all the advice

to make sure your trains transfer material as fast as possible, make sure buffer chests loading/unloading trains are balanced.
having only a few chests gobble up/drop all the material slows loading/unloading of trains.

some will use a metric ton of splitters, but there is a better way!

say you ...

Yes, 70 smelters per lane, it's all new to me all this outpost mining mullarcky. I've seen youtube vids of ppl transporting huge quantities of ore, with monstrous loading and unloading areas, it rather scared me that I might get a bit out of my depth..

You should probably define a "large" number of smelters. To some people 48 is large and to others 480 is large. I am pretty sure 1 wagon with 24 stack inserters and buffer chests unloading can support 4 blue belts. You would need a wagon every 12.5 seconds and you would only have 5-6 seconds to get ...

Wow, thanks Urza, that is handy info you've put together there, clearly it isn't as difficult to supply as I thought : )

Ok, thanks for the tips, so the train being able to keep up with volume isn't really a problem then... Im a bit of a noob at all this and just looking at the compressed belts running to the smelters it looks like a LOT of ore that seems unreasonable for a train to keep up with.

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Im new to grand scale smelting and trains. I was wondering, when I setup a remote ore mining operation, is it a problem to train in enough ore to keep up with large numbers of smelters? I know this seems a bit of a open ended question, but I'm curious as to whether I should be aware of any ...