Rail
A Rail is used for building a track for trains in a Railway network. Unlike Transport belts, rail tracks can be curved and can be placed diagonally as well as horizontally, and vertically.
Optimal time/item usage: 1 Iron stick factory → 2 Rail factories.
As of 0.13, the rail planner can be used to automatically place rails. See the page for more info.
History
- 0.13.0: 
- Rail planner tool simplifies rail building.
 - Improved the rail selection logic.
 - Halved the mining time of rails.
 - Removed the curved rail, rail is the only type now.
 
 
- 0.12.11: 
- Replaced entity type rail with types straight rail and curved rail
 
 
- 0.11.17: 
- Increased the stack size of Straight Rails to 100 from 50.
 
 
- 0.9.0: 
- Rails are now crafted in pairs.
 - Nicer rail diagonals/turns on minimap.
 
 
- 0.7.1: 
- Added remnants for destroyed rails.
 
 
- 0.5.0: 
- Rails are not minable when a train is on them.
 - Rails recipe changed, now needs steel and stone
 - Rails made more expensive
 
 
- 0.2.8: 
- Correction of bounding boxes of some built curved rails.
 
 
- 0.2.1: 
- Rail building and selection boxes
 
 
- 0.1.0: 
- Introduced