Train Signals: How to stop rear-endings?
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:16 pm
So I encountered a problem where the iron vein I've been basing my factory on has all but dried up. There's a nice fat seam south, so I built a track going down to bring it up. Turns out, one train wasn't enough- as soon as it leaves the stop to get more, by the time it gets back my furnaces are empty again. To solve this I added a second train to my track (i should specify its just a standard track that loops around), but then I enountered my newest problem- when one train stops the other often comes barreling down the track straight into the back of the first.
I have tried numerous times to fix it with rail signals, but it always ends up the same way- either they just flat out don't work, or the train never leaves its station until the signal(s) are removed. I've looked at the tutorial, but it really hasn't been helping.
I've tried the following:
1) Putting one signal just in front of the train stop and another where the trains "hitbox" type thing ended. Results- the trains don't crash, but once they stop at a station, they don't start moving again.
2) Removing the signal in the back and keeping only the one in front of the station. Results- Nothing. The trains crash as usual.
3) Removing the signal in the front and keeping the one in the back. Results- Same as above.
I don't have any understanding of train signals in the slightest and I'm starting to think that they don't even have an application in this scenario- the tutorials I've tried to look up only refer to branching tracks and junctions and such. Is there any way to make this work, or should I really just be using one train on one loop of track?
I have tried numerous times to fix it with rail signals, but it always ends up the same way- either they just flat out don't work, or the train never leaves its station until the signal(s) are removed. I've looked at the tutorial, but it really hasn't been helping.
I've tried the following:
1) Putting one signal just in front of the train stop and another where the trains "hitbox" type thing ended. Results- the trains don't crash, but once they stop at a station, they don't start moving again.
2) Removing the signal in the back and keeping only the one in front of the station. Results- Nothing. The trains crash as usual.
3) Removing the signal in the front and keeping the one in the back. Results- Same as above.
I don't have any understanding of train signals in the slightest and I'm starting to think that they don't even have an application in this scenario- the tutorials I've tried to look up only refer to branching tracks and junctions and such. Is there any way to make this work, or should I really just be using one train on one loop of track?