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Originally Posted by 62440
Condor was the older style containers,20 footers on plate wagons I believe.
Regards, 62440.
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I've literally found the info on the Condor by accident and it is the older RCH containers rather than Freightliners which actually did have a train in the 60's from Manchester with MSC Containers in Red livery and Freightliner did one a day from Birmingham - the one you showed me the photo of Ta Bill
but as Freightliner wagons were all AIR braked then they were Diesel hauled
But I think the memory I have must be of one of the Condors with relief traction as apparently they were Double-headed Co-Bo hauled a lot of the time (which would make for an interesting display train at 25 units plus 2 brake vans behind 2 Co-Bo's if anyone is interested
Anyway this has given rise to the plan for some RCH containers on Bachmann single plank wagons and maybe a Bogie bolster and at a later date five FLA's with either MSC boxes or Freightliner boxes and may be even a Guards 10 foot box which is going to be fun to make (got the diagrams from
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/7-fops/fo-abcont.htm and a lot of other interesting stuff from there too
If anyone does have any thoughts memories I am still interested more grist for the little grey cells to mull over