"incompatible coupler types"

[BURYAMAN]

hello good sirs and madames.

I have been stumped by how this message keeps on appearing when i attach indian railways coaches to a diesel locomotive.

is it possible to somehow modify these indian coaches to be "attachable" to diesel types?
or is there a download that has these coaches "diesel ready"? i'm stumped.

BTW the prototype i'm trying to work on is Philippine National Railways during the 70's and 80's.
they operated GE U15C, GE U6B, GE U10B (most recent GE addition), GE U12C, and Kiha locomotives and rolling stock was chiefly Indian Railways coaches, Kiha cars and some Romanian coaches, all second-hand (except Kiha - locally named CTC/CMC class). Freight was declining during this time as the road trucks wre starting to take over... paint scheme was either a dark green background with white or yellow highlights, or chrome yellow with green highlights.

[longiron]

Each train car (.wag) file has a definition of the coupling type as shown below

Coupling (
		Type ( Automatic )
		Spring (
			Stiffness ( 8e2N/m 4.5e6N/m )
			Damping ( 2e6N/m/s 2e6N/m/s )
			Break ( 5.1e7N 5.1e7N )
			r0 ( 12cm 12cm )
		)
		Comment ( CouplingHasRigidConnection ( 1 ) )
		Velocity ( 0.2m/s )
	)
	Coupling (
		Type ( Automatic )
		Spring (
			Stiffness ( 8e2N/m 4.5e6N/m )
			Damping ( 2e6N/m/s 2e6N/m/s )
			Break ( 5.1e7N 5.1e7N )
			r0 ( 12cm 12cm )
		)
		CouplingHasRigidConnection ( 1 )
		Velocity ( -0.2m/s )
	)

The coupling TYPE ( Automatic or whatever words are between the brackets ) much match between cars you are trying to couple together. Tools like ConBuilder and Route Riter can assist you in identifying the coupling types and where there are mis-matches. You can also hand edit the files using notepad/wordpad. Just make sure you save as unicode format when you are making changes.

[crstagg]

Also if there is a coupler mismatch then it would no be very realistic to have the two items coupled together.

[OTTODAD]

Below are my AUTOMATIC for all couplers ENG files parameters to connect whatever couplers together, being supplied with the Route Riter !

Using some exotic rolling stock it is not always possible to find other rolling stock with matching couplers when creating consists.

Also using my Default.wag which comes with the Route Riter makes front and rear coupling in MSTSBin almost trouble free, providing rolling stock has accurate Bounding Boxes !

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