Rail/Electric connectivity

[sikm]

Like so many others I'm having such difficulty it getting everything to connect. What I really want is a diagram showing the connectivity.

I have no trouble in creating an oil field with 5 wells and linking that to the harbour, it's when I want to connect a fuel station and a generator that I have trouble.

I've looked at many Youtube vids but nothing I've found deals with things at this low level.

Anybody got a diagram?

[sikm]

Forget all of the above, I just don't get it.

I started a Creative game, built an oil field and connected to the harbour. Ran a line off the line that went to the harbour and ran it through a fuel station and then through a generator.
No problems whatsoever and yet Id tried for most of the day in my current game and it just wouldn't work.

Time for (yet another) new game......

[Hailstorm]

Just to be clear, you run it through the fuel station? I usually try to connect stuff with different tracks. So from harbor to fuel station and from harbor to the power plant. Or have it fork to another track before it reaches fuel station/power plant.
I've never run tracks through fuel station/power plant. (I never thought about doing it, so that's just how I did it)

[Chaosium]

3 oil fields per generator, 1 per fuel station, if you're undersupplied it won't work

Also the train needs to do a few back and forth to bring some oil before the whole system starts working

[Bolacks]

Best thing to do is make double tracks and make sure that every 10-20 tiles you make a crossover point so the train can switch tracks if it needs to. Doing this eliminated all my problems. I wouldn't bother making double tracks if it is a very short run off the main line to a power or fuel station. But double tracks with crossover points are vital on long runs otherwise you will have blocked trains all the time.

[Wuik]

Hello,
A second advice if you don't have place to make a double tracks : put a trade union near each power plant with the Magnetist (green) and the Leading Electricel Engineer (blue) , they are selling at the jail...You will see a reel progress ^^

[pemmons1]

Running track through a fuel station is useful to reduce the stretch of track upon which only one train can run. In Crown Falls I bisected a long stretch of track with a fuel station simply to do this. It costs a bunch to build and takes space, but might be cheaper in both respects than doubling tracks. Of course, it is there to use if you build farms in the area; but if not, keep it turned off to avoid upkeep costs.