One of my 3-color cyclic rules, which produces natural wickstretchers that resemble railroads. These wickstretchers interact with each other in non-trivial ways, get ignited producing lines of still-lifes, oscillators or ships. The rule is almost explosing, but normally pattern stabilize with a few infinitely growing "trains".
in my cyclic rule notation.
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@RULE Trains2
# T12c21c3a-2n3n4br22br13br31br14ar41ar6n
# Copyright by Yoel Matveyev, 2022
# The GNU General Public License v3.0
@COLORS
0 0 0 0
1 255 0 0
2 0 255 0
3 0 0 255
@TABLE
n_states:4
neighborhood:Moore
symmetries:permute
var A={0,1,2,3}
var B=A
var C=A
var D=A
var E=A
var F=A
var G=A
var H=A
var I=A
var a={1,2,3}
var b=a
var b=a
var c=a
var d=a
var e=a
var f=a
var g=a
var h=a
var i=a
0,3,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2
0,1,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,3
0,2,3,3,0,0,0,0,0,1
0,3,3,1,0,0,0,0,0,2
0,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,3
0,2,2,3,0,0,0,0,0,1
0,i,i,i,0,0,0,0,0,i
i,a,b,0,0,0,0,0,0,i
i,a,b,c,0,0,0,0,0,i
3,2,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,3,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1
1,2,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,2
2,3,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,3,2,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,3,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,2,1,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,1,1,2,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,2,2,3,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,3,3,1,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,3,1,1,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,2,2,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,2,3,3,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,3,3,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,1,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,2,2,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,1,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,2,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,3,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,1,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,1
1,2,2,2,3,0,0,0,0,2
2,3,3,3,1,0,0,0,0,3
3,3,3,3,1,0,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,2
2,2,2,2,3,0,0,0,0,3
i,3,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,i
i,1,2,2,2,2,0,0,0,i
i,2,3,3,3,3,0,0,0,i
i,3,3,3,3,1,0,0,0,i
i,1,1,1,1,2,0,0,0,i
i,2,2,2,2,3,0,0,0,i
i,a,b,c,d,e,f,0,0,i
I,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,0