Any chance of making the American coupler？

[ATree_Youmu]

Really like that kind of coupler.

[Slidy]

I don't think it fits to this game as the shunter is from Europe and probably rest of stuff is based on European stuff.

[Slidy]

In some European countries SA3 couplers are used, what I think would fit better to this game.

[ATree_Youmu]

Originally posted by Slidy:

In some European countries SA3 couplers are used, what I think would fit better to this game.

Thats sad

[alucia]

I actually asked this a little while ago, and technically speaking, if a skilled modder wanted to, they could make it work in this game, as the couplers are, apparently, generated by a seperate system and not just built into the 3D model for the trains. Now, this might have changed with Overhauled, I don't know, but from what I was told back then, it would technically be possible for an American Janney-Style Knuckle Coupler to be added in to the game and actually work, nevermind how odd it might look on European style rolling stock. Though it would probably be difficult before the official train modding support is added in, there is already a coupler overhaul mod for the current version of the game that I currently use, so modifying the couplers is possible.

EDIT: Just looked it up, and apparently the Janney Knuckle coupler is actually used on some European railroads, Britain apparently makes use of the buckeye-drophead variation on some engines and cars, with buffer and chain also supported on those, and Belgium also has a couple EMU's that use a variation on the American Janney Coupler.

[Metallos]

Originally posted by alucia:

EDIT: Just looked it up, and apparently the Janney Knuckle coupler is actually used on some European railroads, Britain apparently makes use of the buckeye-drophead variation on some engines and cars, with buffer and chain also supported on those, and Belgium also has a couple EMU's that use a variation on the American Janney Coupler.

It's the Russian SA-3 (mainly in East Europe due to divided Europe after WW2), not Janney.
Also for heavy trains (example iron ore train Hamburg - Salzgitter steelworks, heaviest train in Western Europe for some decades and succeeded by an iron ore train in Norway, whose ore gets also later to Salzgitter) there's the SA-2 compatible Unicoupler. But heavy trains (lightweight and short compared to US trains...) are rare and mostly the UIC coupler ("buffers and chain coupler" or screw coupler) like the game will get is standard.
Some fixed consists in Germany like ICE or regional trains have the Scharfenberg coupler.

The examples you provided can be based on Janney but US type couplers are very rare and only locally used.

[alucia]

Never said other European Railroads used only the American Janney design (or even specically the US varient), just that some used variations on it, though I admit I could have worded things better. Obviously the types used on the examples I provided are variations based on the American Janney design, different circumstances and requirements, but my point still stands, there are European cars and locomotives that use a similar design, at the very least.

Also, yes, I did know about the SA-3.