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Rail Based City Block Design a modern approach

Eric Aug 04, 2026

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Rail Based City Block Design
Rail Based City Block Design

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Modular City Block Train Station plus Stacker FactorioBin
Modular City Block Train Station plus Stacker FactorioBin

Oh my god! Imagine waking up, browsing away your morning reddit needs and stumbling upon this after you spent the better part of the last two days designing a rail based city Block .

Rail based city block

4k spm city block megabase Utility science FactorioBin
4k spm city block megabase Utility science FactorioBin

City block (constructed from rail segments in Chunk aligned rail system) - Optional roboport coverage - Stations - can be used within city block or on 3-chunk straight piece - four different stations, can be used in any combination based on individual space needs - All stations are supposed to be single good stations, holding 3 trains each ...

This blueprint book was made to allow anyone to easily design city block megabases. It allows you to customize every segment and junction individually meaning you don't need to follow the convetional square grid.

4k spm city block megabase Uranium processing FactorioBin
4k spm city block megabase Uranium processing FactorioBin

Factorio Prints

43 Kitch's 2 Lane Rail Book - 3.2 42 Grid Rails 41 Octagonal Tile-able Megabase Rail Network 41 Rail based City Block 100x100 41 2&4 Track Tileable (Railway Blueprint Book) -= [SPACE AGE]=- 40 Vlad's Rail Megabase Stations 39 Modular Rail Infrastructure Notebook

City Blocks stringer207 100x100 City blocks with progressive city block building. Contains power squares utilizing the whole block to max efficiency. Train network included requires Space Age as it uses elevated rails . Train network also utilizes the interrupt system so you don't have to have specific ore trains. Uses a fuel station and a relax station for when all pick up locations are full ...

Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item

Modern City Blocks

Grid-locked 100x100 city blocks . Rail blueprints are right-hand drive and for 1-8-1 trains, using vanilla train limits.

Factorio City Block Size Guide: Pick a Grid Before Rails Lock You In The best Factorio city block size is not one universal number. It depends on train length, station layout, roboport coverage, chunk alignment, build density and how much empty routing space you are willing to reserve. Use this guide to choose a block before a rail blueprint becomes expensive to rebuild.

Modular City Block Rail Curve FactorioBin
Modular City Block Rail Curve FactorioBin

Factorio Blueprint book with all blueprints from Nilaus's Master Class ...

Grid Aligned City Blocks and Rail Segments - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS

Factorio S6E65 Building a City Block blueprint
Factorio S6E65 Building a City Block blueprint
Red Circuit City Block
Red Circuit City Block
Image of one of my standard City Block tiles factorio
Image of one of my standard City Block tiles factorio
Brickwall city blocks book City Block Sulfur and Acid and Battery
Brickwall city blocks book City Block Sulfur and Acid and Battery
Looped City Blocks
Looped City Blocks
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
City Blocks
City Blocks

Factory block approach, but with small-sized blocks , 25 rails i.e. 50x50, making it very manageable for regular, non-mega factories. This was a learning process so not all blocks are polished, but the last created ones have: