Hybrid tank (ground-railways)

[stylistic_sagi]

Okay i don't know if it has been suggested before, but would it not be nice to have a tank or car wich can toggle to stick to rails and toggle to go offroad?
with this you can easily go to large distances using the existing railway but also go offroad and construct new bases.

[Wizard Marcos]

One of these? That would be interesting.

Well, if you can use it to make driving on rails safe, well, I'd love to see this in game. That way we wouldn't need to hit that many trees. Bonus if you could also select a destination when on tracks and go there automatically.

[darkfrei]

Another references:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10 ... icles.html

My favorite is

[stylistic_sagi]

exactly!

[OdinYggd]

That would be quite interesting to have effectively a HiRail truck in Factorio. It would certainly allow for much faster transit over large distances because you could tell it to go to a particular station while on the rails and it would stop when it got there.


Along similar lines though, there are mods to let you load fully equipped tanks and cars onto a flatbed wagon for long distance transport.

[Jamaica_MURR]

It wiil be very good if tank will can use railways to travel fast like a train. Much better then personal train and tank in a pocket. Jump to the rails -> go fast to the problems -> jump from the rails -> kill them all -> jump to the rails -> return to base. Death machine!

[theorderofthings]

What happens when a train runs into you?

[Nasabot]

Good idea! Nicly explained with picture!

[leoch]

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Superche ... le%20Wagon

[JohnyDL]

same suggestion a month ago viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43148

Merge please Mods

[ssilk]

Merged and I really like this, cause it is so ridiculous. Promises much fun.

It should behave like a loco, but cannot have wagons (would be too ridiculous).

[Zero_Berz]

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Armored train anyone?;)