NightStar
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GidDay, I am in the process of putting together a small collection of British models in OO scale. I am looking for models of the Motorail loading cars, and the FGW Motorail cars? This is the loading wagon from the old BR Motorail service as I understand it? http://www.departmentals.com/photo/96452 While the Nightstock train never came to be. I cannot shake the idea of using the FGW cars with the loading car behind the Nightstar cars. Ofcourse the motorail cars would have had to been updated for the channel tunnel as they do not meet the safety standards. The loading cars would be the barrier cars between the sleepers and the motorail cars. These cars would have to have been renovated and placed on new high speed freight trucks, as well as been rewired and such. I just can't shake the idea of running such a long train. I realize this might be asking a bit much from the Class 37/6 locomotives. But I may spray a couple of Class 47 units or even a class 60 because of the similarities to the class 92 locomotives in channel tunnel service. Then there is the rebuilt class 31 ideas I had last year. Three units pulling a mixed unit train that would be longer than the 18 car Eurostar just seems like a cool idea to model in 00 scale!
Robert
Robert