The Ultimate Train Guide: How to Use Trains Like a Pro in Satisfactory!

In this Satisfactory Guide, I go over how Satisfactory Update 7 Trains work. This will also work for the upcoming Satisfactory Update 8.
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[@spectrumdad_]

Hope you found this guide useful! Let me know if you want to see a guide on setting up the different railroad intersections. Have a great day :)

[@awc80]

Worked like a charm :)

[@RagnarokX316]

dude thank you for a guide that's quick and simple!

[@mystery5252]

The Bi-directional trains aren't working for me and I did everything right trains face opposite direction on both sides of cargo car and the train stations are facing the right directions.

[@HW-ow9zp]

this is a really great amount of info in a concise and organized format. thank you very much

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful!

[@bobschuon5908]

Don't forget for you advanced users - You can mix your loads in a single car, by restricting what they pick up/drop off at each station. But that is another video.... ;-)

[@LegacyCatalyst]

10/10, I have been having problems with my railways for a couple months now and finally wanted to get around to preventing my trains from hitting each other all the time. This was excellent, solved all my problems in a matter of minutes. Thank you!

[@gowenrv3762]

You are short, sweet and straight to the point. Great Job! Too many others are bouncing all over the map, too shaky with their camera,,,, and talk too dang fast. Mentally convinced they are a superstar or something. LOL You did great,,,, we need more creators like you.

[@AnchorJG]

This was incredibly helpful. I didn't know that Bidirectional trains were a thing, I now know the point of the empty station buildings are to have one train un/load specific cars, and i have a bit more confidence with junctions though it still looks like magic to me (like most programming). I just have a single loop taking fuel from the West beach to a cluster of power stations in the southern plains, and I know that's not the best use of the system, but I'd just unlocked the tech and that was the furthest base I had at the time. I'm kind of going through an overhaul of everything I've made, attaching things to the world grid and incorporating verticality as i learn more about the game.

[@munkandbear2818]

The section of track that branches off of the main line to hold trains to basically park and wait is called the "siding'.

[@oldandtight]

I'm just getting to the point where I need to use trains and this guide is exactly what I'm looking for. I have enough room to set up a test track just as you have done so i can learn. Thanks for the great guide. Well presented and a quality job

[@jasonhunter3429]

Ditto

[@wizard2319]

Wow! What a great video! You were speaking very clearly and gave great explanations. Thank you for the video!

[@wizard2319]

Railroad Intersections video would be great. What about a video that shows a 4 way intersection with 8 lines coming in. 2 from each side.

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video. :)

[@DABlinxz]

I've tried so many times to get my bi-directional train working and I finally got it going now thanks to this video, THANK YOU!!!

[@Koderon_Yeah]

TYSM! i watched 3 train tutorials and not one helped me, this one is the best out there by far, now i understand the trains way better and finally relax after 3 hounrs and 10 minutes of trying to make the trains work

[@kedano]

I’ve been struggling with trains and this guide was really useful. What I’m missing when drawing lines is better guidance, show the angle number, meters / blocks / distance for the segment you draw and the slope.

[@MadZprod23]

Thanks for the help dude, I've rewatched this video 10+ times to help me out.

[@dubs3432]

Several other video I watched on satisfactory trains said blocks at the entrance and paths at the exit but I think yours makes more sense and I just tried it and it works perfectly fine.

[@francemiron91]

What a great video for beginners! Thanks 😊

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BelieveB23]

Just started trains and signals. Other videos don’t explain it as simply as you do. Thanks, great teaching.

[@thomasleary9949]

I love your videos! Straight to the point and super informative. Please keep making them!

[@Yukiii3]

this video helped me so much !! for real i could not for the life of me figure out trains and alot of the guides that i found just explained it in such a weird way that i couldnt even tell what was going on thank you so much for making this

[@mr.defectiv]

Wanting to say thank you so much. I been fighting and am verry stubborn about researching. I've done everything else so far without doing so. You were top search result and answered every question I had!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad I could help :)

[@richardpayne]

For the simple fork junction you signal up at 9:31, you really don't need path signals. Block signals on entrance and exit is fine. Path signals are useful for complex junctions where it is possible for two trains to use the junction and the same time without colliding. The fork does not have this possibility and so the path signal is overly complex.

[@christopherbroms2508]

Glad someone else caught that. I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed lol

[@tibor...9166]

Thanks for this video !!! I was still afraid to use trains in my saves bcs i didnt know how to use them this vid really helped out.

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you found this useful :)

[@marvinl1ke]

Really good video, basic and simple. Now i understood signals. Thanks a lot

[@RavenCammenga]

Very comprehensive video, thanks

[@easye9186]

Thanks. Super helpful. Great video

[@garrettblanchard2036]

awesome dude, thank you

[@Sigark]

great video thank you!

[@yuriikrasylovych3939]

very good and short guide! thanks a lot!

[@spectrumdad_]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@Derluz]

This helped with my train setuo

[@icemans1matedude339]

Started learning how to use trains just today

[@jericslater889]

Just great guide, like the others.

[@altf4thc]

You should also mention that the side of the track that you place the signals matters

[@waterslug4263]

Thank you sir you earned a sub

[@spectrumdad_]

Thanks for the sub! Glad you found this video useful :)

[@ollisarkkinen]

i never realized that trains are so simple :D. i never got trains working in my world

[@SteeveCordier]

thx

[@alleycatlordoflunes9689]

At around 2 minutes in I discovered there was something that you'd normally not think of as being questionable. But I very much disagree with the concept of starting off with a placing down a train station. In my first playthrough I did do that. But I learnt from that as well. It's actually best in my opinion even though you can't use it. To start off with some track. You will need to keep in mind that the train station is big. So if you want to place it down to get a feel for it's size and then remove it fine. But focus on finding a way to make your track work before building the station as it's part of your factories building. Similar to why you'd prefer building a foundation before putting down a 'Miner' You want to figure out where it would be suitable for your trainstation to become attached. Especially in the northern forests with the big tree's you could end up with very windy tracks if you don't figure out your tracks first. There is a lot of lee-way with tracks capable of very unrealistic grades. In the end though how you build a line is up to the player.

[@VNKNWNVK]

that intro with Subscribe on the train sign tho

[@spectrumdad_]

:S

[@mokmo23]

The signals work pretty much like Factorio's, wouldn't surprise me if both games used OpenTTD's source code in some way. Installing my first systems, I expect it to solve some problems, we'll see...

[@tazgoth23]

after that video I`m try make launch to train on one track with bidirectional. And it works.

[@spencerellis6082]

Hey why’d you stop making content. Your better than the other guys way easier to understand and you were just about to blow up.

[@spectrumdad_]

I was out of country for a month. I’m back now and already making videos. Should start seeing them come soon. :)

[@lawrencet.74]

Didn't know you were dutch, Dordrecht centraal 👍

[@dasmaffin1633]

Okay, but WHY do I need a block signal at the end of an intersection? You explained everything EXCEPT block signals... the one thing I came here for

[@user-uq4np6cu1x]

Is there any guide for bi-directional train setup?

[@alfiebicker9808]

Great video but for some reason my train can only go to one station when it gets to it is says the only station is unreachable the track isn’t clipping into anything and I can drive to it manually. Do you know why?

[@Headphonemike]

Great stuff. I have a better idea about blocks now. But I'm having trouble with the programming. Right now my train just takes the cargo to the station, honks and keeps going without actually dropping it off.

[@spectrumdad_]

Are the stations set to unload and aren't full?

[@Headphonemike]

Them needing to be set for load and unload was one of the problems. Fixed now. My computer factory is actually up and running

[@ktchpmn]

Choo choo!

[@spectrumdad_]

CCCcChhhhhhooooooo!!!!

[@gollese]

How do you make things smaller on the blueprint? Mines are real size.

[@xPriime]

06:13 i have question because im new to Trains in Satisfactory. I want to make a Train with 4 Different Pick Up Stations would it work when i build it like Frist Pickup has "Trainstation - Fraight Platform - Empty - Empty - Empty " and on the second has "Trainstation - Empty - Fraight Platform - Empty -Empty" and so on ?

[@spectrumdad_]

In a way yes. But you’ll want to have the same total amount of platforms on all stations for the same train. So in your second one I would remove the last empty for example. That way the first one grabs the first wagon, the second station grabs the second wagon.

[@Demeor]

I remain surprised at how often these train guides include 0 warnings/caveats on the freight aspect of trains and how to deal with the docking time when accounting for throughput

[@Boozsha_Bo_Bellys]

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[@meyatetana2973]

really surprised this game didn't include a carosel the track you use in real life to rotate a train 360 degrees to access different tracks with least amount of space.

[@nicdigregorio9746]

I'm guessing its a Dedicated server issue....but our trains do not work. Same setup as here... Bidirectional w only 2 freight cars... Station facing the correct way... Train moves, but doesnt pick up anything. Also, the platforms are set to load correctly

[@papierbndc]

Im having some difficultis here Only one Dock is being used out of my 3 when my train Loads/unloads its items Is that a Bug in update 7? -update: Nvm my server is just laggy 😂😂

[@adirmugrabi]

other than looks, is there anything about a train that is better than belts?

[@spectrumdad_]

well, when you put it that way.... It can be used to send the same items across different parts of the map, without having to belt across the entire map. But that being said, I've ran belt buses before across the map no problem, so it's a preference I guess.

[@catgirlQueer]

trains can get a much higher throughput with much lower cost to add new resources if you hook up a new factory to an existing rail network you don't need to run an entire new line to the place you want to use those resources / from the places you want to get resources from

[@catgirlQueer]

each freight car is effectively (almost, because of the loading animation) 1560 items per minute, to double the throughput you don't need to double your bus, you just add another freight car

[@Abiko315]

next stop is unrichabled help me

[@maxk.3803]

And then they removed the feature for the hoverpack in update 7

[@spectrumdad_]

That was a bug that they fixed now. It is working again :)

[@maxk.3803]

@@spectrumdad_ oh god, i hoped so! Didn't play for a couple of days

[@Mike23443]

please never put a signal that stops a train in the middle of an intersection.

[@operator_alpha644]

i hate how quickly you glossed over the path signals as i'm absolutely struggling to figure them out.

[@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf]

Hmm. Well this is awkward

[@spectrumdad_]

Son? :)

[@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf]

@@spectrumdad_ then who's mommy Or am I mommy...

[@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf]

@@spectrumdad_ either way this is so awkward and funny

[@spectrumdad_]

@@SpectrumWolf-hd7kf ^^

[@MrWarbisshop]

why did they have to make trains so complicated :/

[@DamienDarkside]

Trains themselves are complicated. The invention and implementation of the rail network in America dramatically changed EVERYTHING, and was very complex and expensive to implement. However it made everything faster. Way too much influence for a comment.

[@mikedenby6771]

Games needs an element of challenge to be enjoyable. If stuff is too easy then there's no sense of pride/reward after you've completed it.

[@mantelmann13]

A person that did not already unlock trains will not search for a video about train signals. Dude...come on. You are wasting my time.