Peer Review Required

I've been working on understanding the logistic throughput of cargo between trains / stations / warehouses. My observations and experiments produce solid results, however I would like to do some further math to provide accurate information. So this article might not be as polished as others, it's a work in progress.

Observations

• Most of my observation relates to train unloading  and loading
• I've commonly been using trains that have 5 cars (5C) with appropriate station length
• Stations often have either 2 or 4 platforms
• From what I understand, the stations themselves (train or road) do not have any limit on throughput, it is what they are connected to
  • Warehouses have defined loading times
  • Mining facilities extract much slower @ 15 p/m
    • When their buffer of 58 is full, what is that unload time ?
• When a 5C arrives at a station next to a resource deposit that is fully populated with mines, it loads relatively quickly as each car receives cargo from a separate mine that has available cargo
• When a 5C arrives at a station to unload into warehouses:
  • A single warehouse is obviously the slowest
    • Each carriage has 1 item of cargo unloaded one after the other
  • When multiple warehouses are present this speeds up until there is a warehouse to car 1:1 relationship
• With this in mind, when multiple trains with the same cargo arrive to a multi-platform station, unload rates will slow down again
  • So with 4 x 5C trains arriving at once, you need 20 warehouses to unload at the quickest time possible
• Due to the money outlay required, I've been using the small variants of the warehouses as they take up less space and the speed is identical between small/large

Questions Needing Answers

• What rate does a business receive product at?
  • When a train unloads into it, even if it was a single car train, how quickly is it unloaded?
• When a mining facilities internal buffer is full, how fast does it transfer at?
• At a coal deposit will a truck load faster from a warehouse compared to a mine (assume they were both full)?
  • How does it determine which mine/warehouse it will receive it's cargo from?