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There is nothing to disagree about. It seems pretty clear that different regions are seeing different distributions of car types, reflecting the needs of the local / regional industrial customers.  As little as 15 years ago I used to see a lot more boxcars on the branchline near our home then in recent times.   If we go across town to the UP and BNSF, we see more of them as they pass through on their way to where ever, but  the big thing out  here in Portland on the mainlines are the container trains, by far the largest single rail car type. Gunderson [who builds rail cars] is in Portland OR, and once in a while we drive by the RR yard they are located near. We can see their outgoing tracks from some of the side streets.....those container unit-trains they make are BIG part of production.  Even though we mostly model in the 40s and 50s, and a little bit into the 60s, we have some modern cars in our collection. Atlas O makes some nice 5 unit container stack units...Mike has been thinking about collecting one, sort of a nice contrast to our other stuff. They are visually quite interesting.   Cheers to all!
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