Re: Gigatrains: 720-car trains supplying a 10K science/min base
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 5:25 pm
Compared to this thread no-one does large trains:p My biggest is a factory around 6-24 trains and 12 beacon setups. You will have to redesign basically everything to fit the right amount of assemblers around the trains;
Instead of bundling all belts into a belt balancer you run a belts from each wagon to a row of assemblers, having multiple identical parallel production lines. I found it surprisingly workable and its very satistfying to see much trough put you gain with longer trains. It would be worth a own page, so i wont steal this one.
Biggest quirk i found in the design process: you can use multiple serial stops within a station loading ore (depending on space/output, for example, a 24 wagon train can be loaded per 24, 2x12, 3x8, 4x6, etc. wagons. But, (yes there was a but coming) that will not work with fluid wagons, pumps only connect when the loco is in that station. Else it would be very viable to have one single train with wagons all around the track, like a bucket elevator.
Instead of bundling all belts into a belt balancer you run a belts from each wagon to a row of assemblers, having multiple identical parallel production lines. I found it surprisingly workable and its very satistfying to see much trough put you gain with longer trains. It would be worth a own page, so i wont steal this one.
Biggest quirk i found in the design process: you can use multiple serial stops within a station loading ore (depending on space/output, for example, a 24 wagon train can be loaded per 24, 2x12, 3x8, 4x6, etc. wagons. But, (yes there was a but coming) that will not work with fluid wagons, pumps only connect when the loco is in that station. Else it would be very viable to have one single train with wagons all around the track, like a bucket elevator.