I like busy railroads, so I made a really big power plant and dumped water pumps in favour of a rail station to bring water. It needs crazy amounts of water and I couldn't get it running on full load reliably until I learned how to make quick unloading station, like the one shown few posts above. It...

- Max unload/load speed (assuming emty barrels loaded on one side, full barrels unloaded on the other using filter stack inserters) = 6x 12 items per second = ~5.6 seconds to fully exchange the wagon's cargo. I've noticed that inserters' stack size over 10 is lost on barrels. If you put 12 barrels ...

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I've been reading through various "fluid wagon vs barrels in cargo wagon" discussions recently. I couldn't reach a conclusion based on what I read, so I decided to compare the two means of transporting fluids by trains myself. Here are some base facts: Fluid wagon: can hold 75k units of a ...