Underground Railroad

[dudeski123456]

So throughout my playing of factorio I have run into one problem with my trains.

Sometimes I need them to go under an entire base or sometimes even just under a wall. Now, I know what you're thinking. "Just go around it. That simple." But here is the thing. I don't want to. It would be so much easier and look so much nicer if I could just make the train go underneath the wall/base.

I'm also going to bring up the fact that there are the underground pipes and the underground transport belts, so wouldn't it make sense to also let the trains go underground? I say, let this method of transportation go subterranean!


One last thing, in real life trains can go underground. Just thought I might mention that.

[Khaylain]

There is a search function where you could have found a lot of information by searching for different keywords associated with rail/train tunnels. Please use it to see if what you're thinking of has been suggested before, it has helped me. I've attached links to the topics I've found after a cursory search and looking only on the first page of search results.

search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... l&start=10

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9&p=141737&hilit=+t ... nd#p141737

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22395&p=141281&hili ... nd#p141281

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4544

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=9331&hilit=train+tunnel

viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14024&p=128695#p128695

[dudeski123456]

My bad, im new to forums and didnt really look all that hard to find people who had suggested this. And was really eager to give the idea as i though i had thought of it first! Again my bad!

[zytukin]

Trains under a wall?

The Wall Gate can be placed across tracks and will automatically open and close to let trains through so you wont have to have a hole in your wall for a track to enter.

[Khaylain]

Sorry if it seemed like I was berating you, that wasn't my intention. It was simply to inform you about all those that already existed. Hope you keep the suggesting spirit up.