Automatic train placement

[Skeletpiece]

Hello everyone,

I was expanding my base using a lot of trains and noticed that placing locomotives/wagons on track is not very funny (with lot of trains).
I know that you can have logistics robots supply with those items, .... but factorio is made for automation, so it would be great to have something like a shipyard (but for trains, I don't know the exact word).
Required items to build this should have processing units (blue), steel, ...., and a 1min build for every locomotive/wagon

An example image:


Thanks

[Zavian]

There is mod for automatic train deployment. viewtopic.php?f=93&t=49689 Not qutie what you are asking for.

[Tekky]

Maybe you want something equivalent to OpenTTD depots?

If you are unfamiliar with OpenTTD, you may want to give it a try and see if they have the behavior you want. The game is a free download.

If you do not want all of this to take place inside a small "black box" building, then, in order to implement your suggestion, I believe that automatic train coupling would be necessary, for example as it has been implemented in this mod. See this official demonstration video for a first impression. Unfortunately, the mod has not been updated since version 0.14.

[Skeletpiece]

Thanks for both replies,

I was looking both suggestions, I saw that train deployment mod does the job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ycaV5G-k0 but I dont like the way it does.
The idea is to have a simple train assembler to do the job like an inserter does.

Maybe you want something equivalent to OpenTTD depots?

As Tekky said, an automatic train coupling also needs to be necessary so the idea is to have a new building (Train depot) that only places one unit (Loco, wagon) on the rail

Depot example

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You can also be able to choose which unit it has to place:

Recipe

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This new building needs to be scalable, so in order to get 1 Locomotive + 3 wagons you should have 4 train depots. For the coupling problem, as long as these depots are near each other, they can place the train already coupled.
An example image to deploy 1 Locomotive + 2 wagons:

Train depot

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