Factory<->Warehouse<->Rail Cargo Station?

[Actionjackson]

Factory<->Warehouse<->Rail cargo station

That is proper, right? I can dump grain from the cargo station into the warehouse and the factory can pull from there?
And the other way, around, alcohole goes into warehouse, and cargo station pulls from there?

[Actionjackson]

And what is going on if i have 2 warehouses connected to 1 rail cargo station and the train come, does it fill one after the other or both equally?

[joeball123]

Assuming that the factory has a direct connection to the warehouse (i.e. no forklift garages or factory-connection junction pieces), yes, it can pull resources from and deposit resources to the warehouse, and similarly for the connection between the warehouse and the rail cargo station.

Be advised that the game will most likely split the factory's output between the warehouse and the factory's on-site output storage while the two are similarly full, at least until the on-site storage becomes permanently full, and that any goods that get placed into the factory's on-site storage will not be accessible from the cargo station unless a direct connection exists between station and factory.

Also be aware that the game neither limits nor reserves capacity at the warehouse for the factory's output, or for cargo being delivered by incoming trains, unless you tell it to do so, and that as such it is possible for setups such as this to break down due to the warehouse filling up with too much of one type of good or the other, e.g. the warehouse becomes full of grain, so the distillery can't put alcohol in the warehouse, fills up its local storage, and shuts down, causing it to stop processing grain from the warehouse and thus never clearing space at the warehouse for alcohol. If you're going to make a setup such as this without any direct connection between factory and station, always limit the types and amounts of each good you want to have in the warehouse.

And what is going on if i have 2 warehouses connected to 1 rail cargo station and the train come, does it fill one after the other or both equally?

The game tends to distribute cargo so that storage facilities become similarly full, as a fraction of available (allocated) capacity in use. If your warehouses are set to accept the same types of goods in the same ratios and both have the same amount of stuff in them when a train arrives, they should both receive a similar amount of whatever the train brought.

[Actionjackson]

I was keeping that deadlock scenario in mind, i thought this could happen... probably have to tweak it as i go. Thanks for the detailed write up.

[Titule]

I have connected garbage dumps in a daisy-chain using one-way factory connections (because they are too small for me) and found that only garbage is transported from the first to the second garbage dump, nothing goes on to the third.