I've made a plan for a new factory that should hopefully get me past blue science and into logistics bots but it's my biggest project yet and my first time dabbling in oil processing and train networking. Because of that I've tried limiting the amount of trains I use but looking at it now I think it'd be better to use trains for most of the raw materials. The current plan looks like this (Dark red lines are belts and white lines are trains).
My main question is how should I go about mining and transporting the materials into smelter stacks so that I can have (preferably multiple) expandable lines of each resource on my main bus as the main factory is intended to be a bus of base materials running through the middle with small factories on the sides which pull off of the bus.
An issue I ran into with my old base was that I only had one belt of each material and that combined with the bus's incapability to be expanded caused me to be unable to add any more iron/steel consuming factories.
The only mods I have installed are TheLab and a skin mod for my character.