I still have not received the ones I ordered from my North American dealer, so I decided to order one set on eBay to make sure that I would have at least one set. I was musing about whether to decline one of the two sets that I have on order, but I decided that in the interim, I would experiment with other possible prototypical loads for the cars.

I have a quantity of containers, swap containers, etc from the 47441 type T1 cars. I have a number of loads from other manufacturers, including Herpa, Kombimodell, Roco and Fleischmann that I bought to complete my Samskip, Geest, Ferrymasters and mixed container trains. I also have a number of Swiss Post containers from Maerklin/Herpa (47706) and the Liliput 240035-42 sets. I remembered that Roco had a Sgns with Post Containers*, so I thought that I would try the load from the 47706 set. I then remembered that I had some spare containers from the Liliput series, so I thought that I would see what they would look like on the Maerklin cars.

I had 4 containers to play with and 3 cars, so I interspersed the loads with swap containers from one of my Maerklin 47441 T1 cars (Dreier), which I had seen in some photos. The end result looks very nice.

The real thing: https://www.bahnbilder.d...e-44-ii-11277-957901.jpg

*Roco 66658: https://www.roco.cc/doc/...04026006109024029007.jpg

My result:




I hope that you like it.

This will give me the option of extending the Coop train, but will also allow me to run interesting compositions in addition to the existing cars that I already have.

Regards

Mike C

I too am waiting on a backordered Roco new for 2020 container car set. It's been so long I forget which. It's SBB though.
I got a couple Herpa Kuhne & Nagel swap bodies on closeout, but they don't fit the Roco wagons, so I have them legs down in the intermodal yard.