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Minecart stations
Stops on a rail line: get off at a station, press the button to ride on; hopper-minecart stops that empty a cart into a chest or fill it from one; and a whole line that carries a farm's items to storage 128 blocks away by itself.
Minecart line: carries a chest's items to a chest far away, by itself (minecart item transport)
One hopper minecart shuttles by itself between a loader and an unloader at the two ends of a track, carrying a chest's items to a chest far away; with nothing to carry, it waits at the loader.
Minecart loader: fills a hopper minecart from a chest, sends it off when full or when the chest runs dry (an empty cart waits for items)
An empty hopper minecart arrives, stops, fills from the supply chest and leaves on its own once it is full, or once the chest has run dry with items in the cart; an empty cart waits at an empty chest until items come.
Minecart unloader: empties a hopper minecart into a chest, then sends the cart back
A hopper minecart full of items arrives, stops, empties every item into the chest and leaves on its own once it is empty.
Minecart station: stops a cart at the platform, a button sends it on
A cart arriving stops at the platform, ridden or empty, and waits; a press of the button sends it on its way (on a two-way line, carts coming the other way pass straight through). All have their own button.