#Conduct together trains update
#Conduct together trains trial
#Conduct together trains free

#Conduct together trains trial

Building the loop itself takes trial and error, and separate the loop into several shorter curves are advised: the shorter the curve, the lesser chance that 'Too tight turn!' warning will appear. It is advised to put an end-of-line loop for single direction train. The same is applied to Freight Platforms.

#Conduct together trains free

You could, however, build the Railway with the free end snapped to the foundation then build a train station at the end of it. Attempting to build the station on top of the existing Railway will cause the station to be built on top of the rail but not connected to it. It is advisable to build the Train Station before building the rail. Therefore if a curved Railway cannot be built, try to rebuild it with a different build order.

However, if an attempt to connect two existing Railways with a curve is made, it will show a 'Turning Radius too tight' warning, despite the radius being larger than 17 meters. If the building is started from an existing Railway and a curved Railway with a free end is being built, it is usually easier to build. The building of a Railway curve is currently glitchy. The advised build order of a Railway curve. Because of its short collision box and the fact that Locomotives have no collision, it is possible to 'hide' a fully functional Railway beneath a floor of foundation with a 1-meter space beneath them, then more foundation to lay the Railway on (see image). The collision box of a Railway segment is six meters wide and one meter tall.

#Conduct together trains update

As of Update 5, when using beams to support rails, one can achieve a maximum slope of 1:2.25.ДЄ fully functional Railway hidden beneath some foundation. You cannot build a rail on a ramp 8m x 4m, but you can use a combination of 2m ramps and 4m ramps to achieve a steeper grade than a chain of 2m ramps. However, if the start and end points both lie on a Ramp 8m x 2m, the slope can be increased to a ratio of 1:2.7. If the start and endpoints both lie on a flat surface such as a foundation, the maximum slope is 28 meters high over a distance of 94.5 meters, which is a ratio of 1:3.375. The maximum slope is more complicated, as it depends partially on the angle of the start and endpoints of the segment, due to the way curves will be 'smoothed' from one section to the next. This means a 180-degree turn can be completed within an area of exactly five by two and a half foundation blocks and still allow snapping to the edges of that area (see image). The minimum turning radius for a perfect 90-degree turn on a foundation is 17 meters as measured by the center of the Railway at the end of the turn (where the cursor will aim when building). Note that buildings can still snap at the extreme edges of the turn. The minimum length is 12 meters, which is the length of one and a half foundations however, trying to build from the start of one foundation to the middle of another will strangely sometimes fail as if the Railway is somehow actually 11.999 meters long.

The building length of one segment of the Railway is limited to 100 meters, or the length of 12.5 foundations in a flat, straight line, which costs eight Steel Pipes and eight Steel Beams. Building a Railway costs one Steel Pipe and one Steel Beam for the first 18 meters, and one Steel Pipe and one Steel Beam for every 12 subsequent meters, making it slightly cheaper to build many small sections if short on materials. Railways can be laid directly on the ground or snapped to existing foundations, ramps, Train Stations, Freight Platforms, and Empty Platforms.

This is equivalent to the throughput of 512 Mk.5 Conveyors.ДЄlthough the train can move this amount of items between stations, the limited ports at the station mean a much smaller transfer rate can be realized in end-to-end transfer using the train. Throughput (item/min) = (Freight car slots) * (item stack size) / (Freight car length in meters) * (speed in km/h) * (1000 meters/1 km) * (1 hour/60 min)ДЄssuming an infinite-long cargo train runs on the flat, horizontal rail at max speed of 120В km/h.ДЇor items stacks to 100, such as ores, this is equivalent to Throughput = 32 * 100 / 16 * 120 * 1000 / 60 = 400 000 items/minute.

2.9 Building a perfectly straight Railway.