Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

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Toprus' Small Railway Storage
   
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Toprus' Small Railway Storage

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Hi!
Today I want to present to you my first building that is not a passenger station - it's actually a small brick storage.
I wanted to create this for people, who want to roleplay on their republics. The inspiration was the system used in Poland untill late 1990s. This is roughly how it goes:
Due to the small number of trucks and the fact that they weren't used on long distance routes yet, all goods were transported by train, even if it was just one waggon. A sight of such v e r y short freight train was common in rural ares of Poland and propably other countries. The system works like this:
-From a large freight hub, many small freight trains head to all sides,
-They go on smaller branchlines to the villages along them,
-At every station they drop out cargo at storages, from which a small local truck picks them up and delivers goods to stores in the village.
-Empty train comes back to the main cargo hub,
-Repeat.
That system was very common, because of the dense railway system and the not so much advanced road network. At that point, it was better to have a train with a single waggon go to drop cargo at a village, where a truck would distrbute it, than have a truck drive a long way on roads with extremely bad condition.
Unfortunately because of the fact, that the road network is getting more advanced, these short freight trains disapeared and trucks replaced them. That kind of system stayed the for the longest time in the Bieszczady region of Poland which was the most undeveloped.

At your disposal you have:
3 factory connections
1 road connection
1 rail connection

The storage is small and compact, which makes it a nice substitute for the overscaled vanilla one.

I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
Cheers!
9 Comments
andy.cz7777 14 Jul, 2024 @ 3:30am 
This very same system you described was used here in Czechoslovakia. And before trucking took of it was used everywhere. I live on a local track which runs the 810 motorwagon, and at all the larger villages, and at centrally located villages of all sizes something sort of like this warehouse is always present with a large truck turning loop somewhere nearby. The only complication was meat delivery, irl the solution was to have a refrigerated truck have a cash register onboard and sell directly to the street, if the village had a larger supermarket that the truck obviously went there.
Dr.Seuss 25 Aug, 2022 @ 8:54pm 
I am very fond of the idea of using trains to supply a village, so I have tweaked your building in my own game so that it can also store a small mount of meat. This way it can adequately supply the whole village. I like it very much! Thank you!
diegokilla 27 Jun, 2021 @ 11:52pm 
how much does this hold? maybe that could be added to the description?
Toprus100  [author] 23 Mar, 2021 @ 5:09am 
There is no way to mirror buildings, but also adding a road from another side wouldn't really be aesthetic, as the vehicle station would make the vehicle do a few circles
Dr Fish 23 Mar, 2021 @ 3:40am 
Hello,
This is a very useful building to me but I was wondering if it could either have a mirror version or have an additional road/factory connection on the opposite side?
I just ask as right now I want to put this down above my warehouse but to get the factory connection the road is facing the wrong way.
Unless of course there is a way in game to mirror when plopping down a building that I dont know of.
Shotkey 13 Sep, 2020 @ 3:31am 
Looks fantastic, thanks
argent 14 Apr, 2020 @ 7:18am 
Nice, thank you - using it in my new HMC start xD
fjorkar 8 Apr, 2020 @ 8:47am 
serdecznie dziękuję, bardzo ładny
dennis 7 Apr, 2020 @ 9:50am 
Thank you