Any advice on a good prototypically correct example of a transition era stock (livestock) car?
It seems this particular type of freight car has been overlooked by the O scale modeling world.
The examples I have seen have postwar freight car features such as diagonal-panel roof and steel running boards. However, the large majority of stock cars in use in the 1940s-1950s were rebuilt single-sheath boxcars with original flat or murphy roofs.
You would think that manufacturers that produce nice examples of single-sheath boxcars could be able to make tooling for similar stock cars.
Bob