Compact train unloading

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Compact train unloading

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Not sure if this has been done before, I've only ever seen a similar 4 lane one, but here are a few compact unloaders I made for 1-4 trains (RHD). I mostly cared that they were narrow, but they also couldn't be too long.

They all have these properties:
  • fully compressed blue belts of output parallel to rail
  • "wagon balanced", all cargo wagons will always empty at the same time (within a 1 or 2 inserter swings)
  • buffered via chests
  • can unload on either side of rail in either direction (mirrored versions exist)
  • has space for rail signals at the end of the train and right after the train stop, as well as some in-between
  • space for inserter + requester chest for fuel
  • width of a multiple of 2 to align with rails
  • very smol
2 lanes out, 2 tiles wide
can't be flipped, has mirrored version
requires some kind of lane balancing it you want the wagons to always unload evenly
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4 lanes out, 4 tiles wide, I saw an image of this at some point and tried to recreate it from memory
can be flipped and rotated.
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6 lanes out, 8 tiles wide, can't be flipped, has a mirrored version
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Would love to see other variations or even smaller versions. Feedback is great too, would love to see my mirrored 6 lane be able to fit that missing splitter, but I'm not sure its possible without moving the balancer part one tile away.

Example of how I use them:
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