Originally posted by lei07:

... allows which direction the train cab is facing when you buy/replace trains?

For example, you would have a locomotive at either end of a passenger train facing in opposite directions, and though mechanically this would not change anything, aesthetically it would look more realistic, and avoid the "jump" the lead loco makes at end stations.

Also, I picked up Train Sim World CSX Heavy Haul recently, mostly due to Transport Fever (lol) and found out that sometimes they will have two locos back to back, placed at either the rear or the front of a line of cargo. Again, just for aesthetics I think this would be a cool addition to TPF.

So, does such a mod exist?

There are individual US mods for locomotives that have reverse facing trains, also there are some with two locomotives setup forward and reverse facing as a multiple unit on the steam workshop.

As far as I know it's the only way it's been done if the individual locomotives have been created like this. I personally haven't seen a mod that allows you to apply this to any train though.

If you look through the USA collection from my Steam profile you should find the American trains.

Hope this helps.

Herro again SlimNasty, yeah I copied your UK collection, intend to make use of it sometime when I'm bored with the Wild West!

I may look into specific assests, would be cool just to have it as a seperate mod though.

From your own collection, Slim!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849623625

Looks like this may do the trick :)

Originally posted by lei07:

From your own collection, Slim!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849623625

Looks like this may do the trick :)

Yeah that's what I said, it's only for the models listed, it doesn't do any train unfortunately.

Since this is about mods and modding, I moved this topic to the proper forum. ;)

Originally posted by SlimNasty™:

Originally posted by lei07:

From your own collection, Slim!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849623625

Looks like this may do the trick :)

Yeah that's what I said, it's only for the models listed, it doesn't do any train unfortunately.

Yes, the locomotives can appear anywhere in the consist, ... front, middle, end.

For individual custom locomotives, you would have to make a simple LUA file, place it in the Multiple_unit/USA folder, rename it (just append _reversed to the name), then modify the LUA file for that specific locomotive to be reversed like so:

function data()
return {
vehicles = {
{ name = "vehicle/train/usa/alco_hh600.mdl", forward = false },

},
name = _("ALCO HH 600 Reversed"),
desc = _("The ALCO HH series were an early series of switcher diesel-electric locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York.")
}
end

There are three reasons why the mod only touches the specific vanilla USA Locomotives:
1) There is already a mod for the European locomotives on the TransportFever fansite.
2) Making a mod that incorporates all custom locomotives requires permissions from each custom locomotive model's author.
3) If one tries to use a reversed mod without the actual custom locomotive inststalled and activated, the game will just CTD. (each "reverse locomotive" LUA file points to a specific model, if it's not loaded, game crashes)

Since it is easy to just add the simple LUA file to make a locomotive show up as reversed, I figured an author making a cusdtom locomotive would just add it themselves.