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zandoodle wrote: 22 Jul 2019, 15:15 How will this work? Will it be an shift x like animation, or will it be biased on the unit it couples to?
It will just couple without problems to either a coupling like itself or to a buffer&chain only coupling. Just like the real thing on Dutch DDM trains. Just with the buffer&chain variant, in reality the actual connection has to be done manually (not needed in the sim).
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I'm still planning to add that function some day though, but kept postponing it as not a lot of rolling stock would need it. So maybe......
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Sjoerd wrote: 22 Jul 2019, 15:46 It will just couple without problems to either a coupling like itself or to a buffer&chain only coupling. Just like the real thing on Dutch DDM trains. Just with the buffer&chain variant, in reality the actual connection has to be done manually (not needed in the sim).
Well, it's shame, that CD 471 (City elephant) has only Schafenberg coupling (although it has buffers). That complicates it's towing when it breaks down. When a locomotive wants to tow a defective CD 471 unit away (other CD locomotives and units uses buffer and chain coupling), it has to be equipped with Shafenberg adaptor.

IMHO. Shafenberg coupler looks more reliable and safer for me than chain and buffer coupler. Because it's almost impossible to force decoupling with Schafenberg coupler. With buffer and chain coupler, you can force decoupling very easilly. Just snap chain in half, and Voilá, train is decoupled. Also Schafenberg coupler can transmit electricity, which buffer and chain coupling can't do. The passenger cars has to be electrically connected by cables with locomotive.

Also IDK how is it treated in Netherlands, but in Czech republic, when coupler snaps and train is decoupled, the pnematic brake pipes disconnects, which makes brakes to lock up and stop the train. This can also happen, when pneumatic brake pipes disconnects by itself and train isn't decoupled at all.

Yeah, that function of braking system reminded me of a movie called "Atomic train" where a train, transporting nuclear waste has faulty brake pipes, which disconnects and causes brake system failure. The train was unable to stop at all. IDK how it ended, because I saw that movie, when I was a kid, and TBH I was really superstitious and gullible that time, so I believed, that's how pneumatic system works and if that happens and we're onboard, we're doomed. But nowadays I know, that's a nonsence.
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In basically every place of the world, no matter if you have a vacuum based system or a pressure based system, you have some form of pressure on the brake pipe. In case of a pipe disconnect, for whatever reason it occurs, the brake pipe immediately assumes the pressure of the surrounding and that will so severely differ from the pressure used to keep the brakes released that they will automatically apply. Its one of the easiest to implement safety systems aboard a train working thanks to the magic of the laws of physics and equalising pressures.

Many movies do things related to trains wrong. Every movie that has a train has me finding something wrong about it to be honest. But I know those childhood experiences. I grew up when my dad had some train sim games. In one, Trainz 2004 I think it was, there were portals that made all trains disappear into thin air that entered them. For some time I was afraid that if I accidentally enter the wrong train one day, it travels into a portal and I get deleted from the world together with it. :lol:



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Scharfenberg is a nice coupler. BUT, Tomlinson is superior :P
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Sgt_DeBones wrote: 23 Jul 2019, 00:34 Scharfenberg is a nice coupler. BUT, Tomlinson is superior :P
Excuse me! We all know Dellner is the best. :lol:

Anyways, we're going off topic! :?
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iamhankhamTS wrote: 23 Jul 2019, 16:56 Excuse me! We all know Dellner is the best. :lol:
Eww, that thing is disgusting :?

I would like to see a DDM coupled to an E 186, please.
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Sgt_DeBones wrote: 23 Jul 2019, 18:02 I would like to see a DDM coupled to an E 186, please.
Then look back: http://sim.bemined.nl/forum/viewtopic.p ... 280#p22718
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I completely forgot about that :oops:
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Just to clear it up, Dellner is a company that makes scharfenberg couplers. In SF, our older cars have scharfenberg couplers made by dellner.
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