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I kinda like boxcars myself.  These days large receivers are requesting boxcar commodities move on other equipment, effectively demarketing a railroad mainstay.  Most Class Is are significantly downsizing their boxcar fleets to better fit the market as well as to standardize their fleets.  As a result of serial merging, many large carriers found themselves with literally hundreds of different boxcar versions.  There's been a major effort since 2001 to move towards more uniform types.  TTX has been the engine of change acquiring the 50' high cube FBOXs, originally only to be equipped with 12' single plug doors.  There are a few hundred with 10' single plugs as a bow to their eastern owners but now hunting loads.  The TBOXs are the 60' high cubes with double 8' plug doors, 16' opening.  These are the new Cadillacs of the boxcar universe.  There is a prototype floating around you'd be lucky to catch, the IBOX which is an insulated TBOX.  Start taking pictures of WP [Western Pacific] boxcars.  There were never many and they're now being scrapped for components.
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