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To access distant parts of the project, I ended up building a regular-scale passenger train inside each rail.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3297/
SkaveRat 20 points a month ago
Instead of building a smaller model train set (1:87 scale), they are building a giant train set (87:1 scale)
Depicted is the side view of tracks and a train wheel in the middle of construction
OwOarchist 9 points a month ago
Depicted is the side view of tracks and a train wheel in the middle of construction
I think the art here is the issue.
It's (ironically enough) way out of scale. In this drawing, the rail is over twice as tall as a railroad tie is thick. In a real railroad, that should be reversed -- a rail is approximately half as tall as the thickness of a railroad tie.
Axolotl_cpp 1 point a month ago
Then thee is me who was thinking that it was supposed to look like:
AwesomeLowlander 19 points a month ago
To access distant parts of the project, I ended up building a regular-scale passenger train inside each rail.
Welcome to factorio.
BlackVenom 3 points a month ago
Dyslexic N scalers be like
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Took me way longer than it should have, plus the alt text to understand what is actually displayed in the sketch
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