Yo yo yo! Sorry for being elusive, the holidays were a total bust. Wonked work schedule, computer problems and all that jazz. Anyways. Trains! Tanks and slaves! Ahh! That'll work out great I think. Also, just to note: I mentioned that the SS and the slavers are currently at each other's throats. To clarify, they're not at war. At least not full-out war, it's more like a dead heat between the two. Where the SS is standoffish, and the slavers are holding back from steamrolling the SS to avoid all-out war with the entire hospital faction.
The train will be a huge bonus when it comes to brining material supplies into the city, as well as slaves. Plus, the tanks. This all makes for quite a powerful faction, but not over-powered by any means. We'll just have to buff the hospital a little bit, I think. I've been thinking about it, and I think the buff could be in the form of an allied faction. I was thinking about placing the new faction at the University of Utah Health Care building (a real location). This faction would be more of an intellectual power and not so much militarized. Also, this faction wouldn't have any real outposts, except the Town Hall outpost, which I planned to make a co-op between the University and the Hospital/SS (which would better justify its location.) The Town Hall outpost isn't really much of an outpost at all, it's evolved into a small faction of its own, thus why I mentioned it being the only autonomous outpost when I initially joined the rp, it's the alliance's bastard child.
The placement of the University faction kinda gobbles up the eastern part of the city, so let me know if this would end up being problematic or not, since I'm not sure where you were planning to put the Fire Station outpost. Otherwise, there's plenty of industry out west, plus the airport, and a second rail yard. Or, you know, anything could be anywhere. I just like using actual locations, because I'm lazy. To make another note: the Fire Station, Rosewell Tower, Hospital, and Town Hall aren't real locations, so don't bother Google mapping them.
Also, just to make another note: If the University is cool with you, I likely won't be trying to inject any more factions for a long while, just trying to get everything nice and balanced.