Working on a new fictitious route. I have a container port already. I also have oil and coal industries, and an oil terminal which supplies crude oil (from a ship, although that bit is fake - but not that bothered about making the ships functional even if we can).
Now, a bit further up the coast I made a huge river estuary, because I could, and to have an excuse for a tunnel under it, and bridges across the river. Having done that, I had a deep water channel, so I thought there could be another port there.
What I would like is a bulk ore carrier ship (although a generic cargo ship other than containers would server for that) and a bulk ore loader which loads trains with iron ore. Ideally, it would look like the ore came off the ship. However, not having much luck finding industry items to implement this credibly. The ship part doesn't have to work provided it looks as though it could. The only ore loader I've found so far is part of a mine, which would work, if I had other stuff to connect to it to make it look credible.
Ideally, the iron ore and coal from the coal mine would go to a iron foundry/steel mill or such. Haven't looked for those yet, except DLS doesn't list an iron foundry although the search term may be wrong.
Anyone care to suggest anything to achieve that? Guessing that ore comes off ships with some kind of crane with a big scoop thingy, and would then go into a dump pile, there to be fed to the train loader.
Now, a bit further up the coast I made a huge river estuary, because I could, and to have an excuse for a tunnel under it, and bridges across the river. Having done that, I had a deep water channel, so I thought there could be another port there.
What I would like is a bulk ore carrier ship (although a generic cargo ship other than containers would server for that) and a bulk ore loader which loads trains with iron ore. Ideally, it would look like the ore came off the ship. However, not having much luck finding industry items to implement this credibly. The ship part doesn't have to work provided it looks as though it could. The only ore loader I've found so far is part of a mine, which would work, if I had other stuff to connect to it to make it look credible.
Ideally, the iron ore and coal from the coal mine would go to a iron foundry/steel mill or such. Haven't looked for those yet, except DLS doesn't list an iron foundry although the search term may be wrong.
Anyone care to suggest anything to achieve that? Guessing that ore comes off ships with some kind of crane with a big scoop thingy, and would then go into a dump pile, there to be fed to the train loader.