Multiple Trains at Oil/Fuel Loading station

[TheOverlord23]

Is it not possible for two trains to load at the same oil/fuel loading station at the same time?

I have a remote ‘oil outpost’ (mostly to play around with train mechanics) and noticed if a train is loading oil (track 1) and second train enters the other part (track 2) the loading station boots the first one out. Is this designed purposefully, you can’t have two fuel trains loading at the same station? Is the only way to load multiple oil trains to build multiple fuel/oil loading stations?

I also noticed at a similar setup that a fuel truck boots a fuel train out of the loading station - same intentional design? I assume the wait until loaded option prevents this?

This remote oil outpost is so far away that allowing trains to fully load up on 180t of oil takes far too long if only one is allowed to load at a time. I had to change the % load amount to something on the order of 20-30% to keep a constantly flow of oil being transported by rail to my refinery by 5-6 trains with 3 of the smaller tankers each. Not an ideal setup for sure, but will need to rearrange my setup at the oil outpost to accommodate for more than 1 train to load if only one is allowed per station.

[MG83]

improve your design i suggest.

[Storpappa]

Originally posted by MG83:

improve your design i suggest.

Tough love
And its true

[MG83]

Originally posted by Storpappa:

Originally posted by MG83:

improve your design i suggest.

Tough love
And its true

:) yup . if he wanted to improve he would look screenshots of ppl :))

[TheOverlord23]

Design improvements planned, still figuring out some of the mechanics. For this particular design it would be helpful to understand the answer to initial question question whether two trains can load oil at the same time, in the same station? If no, then a two fuel/oil loading station design would be considered and rail tracks adjusted as needed. Thanks so much.

[TheAmishStig]

Originally posted by TheOverlord23:

Design improvements planned, still figuring out some of the mechanics. For this particular design it would be helpful to understand the answer to initial question question whether two trains can load oil at the same time, in the same station? If no, then a two fuel/oil loading station design would be considered and rail tracks adjusted as needed. Thanks so much.

A test that could be worth running is connecting a pipe to the second input.

A lot has changed since I wrote the first draft of my cargo guide (that I ended up not publishing to update for 0.8.0.x), but the way some of the under-hood mechanics work it makes sense for it to be "two connections can serve multiple vehicles, or be used for a single vehicle to double the connection-based limit on maximum throughput"

[thorstein92]

It is possible. Let "C" be chain signal, and "." be a normal signal. "-" track; "=" double track S - station
Loading station should be like:

-C <=:=S=:>.-
Chain signal force train to choose free track.

If you want to have dedicated track for fuel/bitumen you need use waypoints (v0.8.0.x)

[TheOverlord23]

Good points - I only have a single pipe into one of the loading station inputs. I’ll connect the other and see if when the second train arrives it fills at the same time and doesn’t kick out the first train.

The track setup does allow both trains into the loading station at the same time (one on each track), but it kicks out the first train once the second starts loading. I’ll test tonight and see - thanks again!

[thorstein92]

Just use "wait until full load". For refinery loading station using Waypoints is even better choice.
So you can have "->waypoint1->waiting tracks for bitumen->track for bitumen loading->" and "->waypoint2->waiting tracks for fuel->track for fuel loading->".
If you don't use external tank as buffer only 1 pipe can be enough :) But for reality reasons 2 are better :P