Most & Least Type of Freight Car You Buy

They sure did.  I used to watch miles of PRR open hoppers streaming through the town where I lived, often behind roaring and straining Baldwin sharks.  That, plus my interest in the Reading RR makes coal hoppers my hands-down favorite.

 

Most:

Covered hoppers -- ACF (12+), PS2 (30+), PS4447 (30+), and PS4750 (10), Airslide (7). I have no clue why I like those things. Maybe I should build a grain elevator, a bakery and a milling operation.

 

Least:

Tank Cars (10). There just haven't been that many that piqued my interest. Four of them are Allied Chemical which I got because I toured their El Segundo, CA facility when I was in high school chemistry. Would probably buy Dow Chemical and PPG if I came across them for the same reason.

Most: Hoppers, followed by boxcars, reefers, and log cars.

Least: Flat cars and tank cars.

 

George

Boxcars

     My favorite rolling stock is the boxcar. I like how they look an operate on the layout. They also look good in the yard. This photo is one example.

 

I like all the covered hoppers, tank cars, coal hoppers, intermodal cars, boxcars and reefers.  I least like the flat cars and log cars. I have repainted & decaled five of the cylindrical hoppers I have to more familiar names as well as some intermodal ones. I only run Railking items.

 

Joe B.

MTH has some nice drop bottom gons.

Don

Without checking I would have said boxcars, but after counting they are about equal to stock cars, counting reefers.  Next comes tankers, and they are almost equal to boxcars and stock cars.  Right now I'm on a roll with scale coal hoppers.  Kinda hard to find.  Absolutely no gons or flats - maybe later.

I generally buy freight cars with wheels on them. I tend to not buy cars without wheels though.

I need to create an inventory some day. I have quite a few boxcars, but I might actually have more Cabeese than I have locomotives to pull them (Note to self get more locomotives). I also really like Weaver's PS-2 2 bay covered Hoppers, which I have a lot of. The other one is Lionel's 9333 flat car with Southern Pacific trailers on them, for some reason I really them and buy them whenever the price is right, those are something that I really do need some locomotives for. I would LOVE a Legacy set of Black Widow F-7s, but they just aren't in the budget in the foreseeable future.

 

 I have a pretty good mix for the other cars though, I definitely like Stockcars more than most it seems, probably 6-8 of those, but when Union Pacific Steam is your main interest, some stockcars are mandatory.

 

 I could do with a few more gondolas, but it is Tanks and hoppers that are most in need of being added to the roster, some but not enough(unless of course, you ask my Wife, She thinks that I have too much of EVERYTHING already.

 

Doug

Boxcars (most are Kusan/AMT)

 

MOW cars that have been converted from other types.

 

Lots of Long Island, PRR, and Amtrak passenger trains.

Offhand, I'd say boxcars take the prize:

And there's more under the layout, in the rafters and in an oven in the basement...

 

Rusty

I'm a passenger car nut, so the only freight cars I run are animated...Lionel "Mo & Joe" lumber car and the milk car, MTH dump cars (2) and signalman in boxcar. I like the MTH cars because they operate slow and smooth.