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[#welcome] Not a silly question at all. PLUS you're asking it at the right time. Sounds like you're modelling contemporary roads. In that case most of what will go by boxcar will be palletised. This means stacks of pallets at facilities, Fork lift trucks ...and - the important bit - the boxcars either have wide dorrs fo the forklifts or double doors. I would guess that the Americold facilities mentioned above will be receiving reefers (mechanical or cryogenic) by rail. As a guide a boxcar will carry anything you can put in a box-bodied semitrailer BUT it's only economical if it is a full load (by weight if not by volume) and can go from a rail loading facility to a rail unloading facility without handling... if it needs to be put into a semi trailer in bulk at either end it will probably go right through in the trailer... but that might go intermodal for part of its route. (The Americold operation looks like it is bringing bulk into distribution centres, breaking it up and sending it out as mixed loads in trucks). Hope this helps :-) BTW... a whole load of cars of all kinds will roll by with no indication of what's in them and no need for people mid-route to know (usually). Have fun!
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