Brake pipes and knuckles

[Beeman]

Kinda funny that brake pipes were accidentally left on some of the models, from previous teasers they are usually child objects that get selected on and off.

Also the fact the new cooke doesnt have a pin hole in the coupler pocket would point that the model was designed with knuckles but then disabled.

If we could finally get an airbrake system and knuckles that would be great, so when a car decides to yeet itself from the track, your train goes into emergency instead of looking back and noticing half your train has been missing for who knows how long lol

[WWII44]

I dream of a world with Westinghouse brakes and Janney couplers.

[coenvijge]

Keep in mind where and when the game is situated. I guess the new engine is modeled correctly and then adapted for this environment. And that seems to me is the right way to do it.

As this game is meant to be a small narrow gauge railway we can and have to do without the air brakes for the moment.

[SomeTrainboy]

The date Railroads Online takes place in -I think, Late 19th Century- Brake Pipes, and certainly knuckles, wouldn't have existed on American Narrow Gauge.

Me not being American, I would not know, but anyways. Engines like the Porters would probably never been fitted with compressors or airbrakes.

And with airbrakes, what would be the point of cabooses? However I would love to see airbrakes in-game, but how would the devs implement it?

I'm probably talking complete crap as a humble british guy, but yea.

Thank you for listening to me rant. :skull:

[Kitsune Dawn]

Originally posted by Trainboy60008:

The date Railroads Online takes place in -I think, Late 19th Century- Brake Pipes, and certainly knuckles, wouldn't have existed on American Narrow Gauge.

Me not being American, I would not know, but anyways. Engines like the Porters would probably never been fitted with compressors or airbrakes.

And with airbrakes, what would be the point of cabooses? However I would love to see airbrakes in-game, but how would the devs implement it?

I'm probably talking complete crap as a humble british guy, but yea.

Thank you for listening to me rant. :skull:

Air brake systems went into use in 1872 on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Automatic air brakes soon gained widespread adoption around the world. They made braking safer and more precise and allowed railroads to operate at higher speeds, now that trains could be reliably stopped.

The game is set loosely in the 1890's. So yes, air brakes would be around at this time on American Narrow Gauge railroads.

Also Cabooses in the US, aren't "brake wagons" like in the UK. They're there to give the conductor and rear end brakemen a place to stay and monitor the back half of the train. Braking in trains without brakes (which was also common) was done by having several brakemen running along the roof walks putting on, and off the hand brakes.

Knuckle couplers were invented in 1873, and were required for use on all railroads and were required to be placed on all trains starting in 1900, though there were exceptions made for interurban railroads, industrial railroads, and some narrow gauge lines not classified as common carriers. By 1914, all railroad other than interurban and industrial railroads, were required to have converted over.