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The coupler situation in Europe is still a formidable mess. Each manufacturer has his own design, some of them match, some don´t. At least, most of them now use the NEM coupler pocket for installation, so changing couplers can be done easily. Somehow this reflects the prototype situation - European railroads could not agree upon an common automatic coupling system for over a hundred years. N scale is in a little better position - they all use the Rapido style coupler. The worst part of it, that, whatever coupler you use, they all look wrong - way to bulky and far off from the prototype, which is still screw link coupling. As European model railroad operation emphasizes more on running trains than switching (the exemption being the UK), quite a lot of folks put an imitation of the screw link coupler to the front of the loco, add the airhoses and thus get a more prototypical look of the train, which is seldom taken apart. I think, that US model railroaders are far better off with the Kadees and Kadee look alikes. If you de-install the trip pin and add those magnetic air hoses, you are closer to the prototype Europe will ever get.
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