Railroads -- Cell Factories

[SkySo1dier]

Whats new guys!

Here is my set-up:

- each factory is a compartmentalized cell that connects to the network infrastructure.

Each factory has multiple stations.
Deadlock is guaranteed not to occur as long as the number of trains less or equal to: Number of Stations in a Factory + 3.
All stations of the same factory are arranged vertically so the station names do not overlap.
All factories are either storage facilities or manufacturing facilities.
All factories have a night switch as I adding power production is just too tedious of a task.
Each factory has a dedicated "parking" station as it greatly simplifies player's travel.
Each factory gets supplied by train fuel for all of its stations; trains refuel while in stations.
Each manufacturing factory has a corresponding storage facility for its output.

- rails are one-way and the trains are 2xL-6xC.

Larger trains require larger cells that no longer can be kept next to each without a large number of landfills.
My previous similar design with two-way rails proved to be inferior to the current one-way design.

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[noliVe]

Pretty neat! ;D somehow i would love to see something like smelting era + storage or things you never need as raw material transformed directly

aka WOOD can be planks because you dont need he wood as a raw material
you never store gears....i like to know how you manage like these


keep posting good stuff!

[SkySo1dier]

aka WOOD can be planks because you dont need he wood as a raw material
you never store gears....i like to know how you manage like these

Bro, thanks for the kind words!

I used to have an earlier setup using exactly the same logic -- storage for the iron sticks, raw wood, etc. was incorporated within a final product factory. The said resources never had dedicated storage areas.

In the new version i eventually fully separated the manufacturing and storage layers.

Here is the nearly empty gear storage facility. The wood storage is also nearly empty and looks pretty much exactly the same.

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[noliVe]

again great idea, love to see trains a lot!

But since someone like you started it i want to read more about the:

WHAT you Sort and what you not sort
And i would suggest a Digital Number on your Storage area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZU8_chH1U

[SkySo1dier]

noLive, thank you for the counter video! I was always wondering how those are made.

WIth regards to sorting -- I do not sort anything. Iron ore goes to the iron store storage and so on. No commingling of any products

^_^

[PowerCheez]

Really neat. I'd love to have the blueprint book for these!