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Construction Train Car (11x45, 4-axle)

Update: converted to 4-axle design.

No automatization! Just convenient stockpile.
Mainly for easing the burden of building rail tunnels in survival.

The biggest problem with building rail lines in survival (besides accumulating sufficient amount of metals) is an efficient construction of tunnels and earthworks for elevated tracks. Even though the rail planner allows to place long over/underground sections, the subsequent excavation/filling requires a lot of material moving. Simply ditching the dug out stone is a waste as both the earthworks and the station constructions require large amounts of this material and tunnel constructions are a perfect source of it. The usual train cars are very cumbersome to access while in the tunnel and usually need to be parked at its entrance, which forces the engineers to run back and forth over considerable distances.

This car is constructed specifically to minimize this logistics problem thus to optimize the rail construction especially in the tunnels. Its features include:
* Easy access from the ground level from both front/back and the sides. Its central passage gives sufficient clearance from the tunnel ceiling for unimpeded movement.
* Capacity: two stockpiles for stone located in the central part store 8.5t of it. The components for rail constructions can be stored in a lumber stockpile (center of the car) and 8 small chests (56 stacks in total). All stockpiles/chests are easily accessible from central passage. When needed longer trains can be formed. The car construction allows for easy passage through the whole lenght of the train.
* Builtin worker chairs allow for transport of up to four engineers, while onboard lighting provides good illumination of working area.
* The standard 6-axle new 4-axle design guarantees stability at high speeds and in longer trains.

Enjoy!!!

Collection of other train cars (Johnbeere, Xaerthus, Baron, me): https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691687874.
Collection of locomotives (same authors): https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1692456187.

If you like tinkering with trains, cars, ships airplanes and other crazy contraptions in ME, consider visiting the "Medieval Industrialists" discord: https://discord.gg/VUMmkQe.

This blueprint uses components from quite a few mods. Many thanks to all the ME mod authors for their hard work, patience and persistence. Especially I would like to thank Equinox, Peaceman, Wolfgar7474, C3ntron and Storied, whose mods have been used in this construct.

The first illustration: An example of a tunnel construction zone. In front a construction train formed out of two construction cars and an X-RAI workshop car https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691550885 pulled by the 'Beagle' small shunter https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1842909707. In the background a stone removal train made of six open cars https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691512063 pulled by 'Elephant' heavy cargo locomotive https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1712671642.