TL;DR Rail /Chain Signal to restrict certain train combinations (like LTN train length restrictions) What ? Rail / Chain signals to be configurable via click/menu to place restrictions. For example to restrict a signal from turning green except for train lengths 3, or configuration LCC. Why ? One u...

Broken record: Use smart stations and the locked slots signal for stations providing more than 1 item. It's my fault. I had a hard time getting the numbers right for requests. This led to trains going to stations to deliver that could not take the whole train full of material, so the train would ev...

Here is what I am doing, (Against Optera's advice!) I am overly cautious with not wanting to pollute resource lines. So I have assigned allot of the major resources to their own network, with their own depot. That way, Coal Trains only ever pick up from and deliver to coal stations in the coal netwo...

Sorry to necro this thread, but if your provider station has a stacker, (Even one lane), just make that a depot stop. A train will be there with almost no distance to travel to fill up.

Thank you Optera. Unrelated, but I am going to get smart on Network ID's I think at some point. My OCD says that the Engines should be color coded to match what they carry. So if I put all Coal Provider/Requester/Depots in the same network, and Copper and so on, I can satisfy this I think? Thank you...

I think I accidentally found the answer. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=214&t=51881#p303060 Trains are bound to depot names. This allows multiple depots with the same length without trains queuing up at one while another is empty. Also Depots ignore all control signals except "...

I am unable to find the answer elsewhere. I know that for a Depot, all the station should be named the same. I read/watched that this is the only case that LTN will work, (i.e. 6 Copper Ore providers can't be named "Copper Ore Provider", correct?) Anyway, I have a Depot with 25 spots, all ...