"Sunday Morning" on TV just showed a glimpse of a train with a billboard ad on the side of a boxcar, of one of the national political candidates. Is that a real boxcar, or a computer simulation? Nobody is offering fantasy cars of these (or models, if the prototype exists?)
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could be either a candidate could of rented and had the car painted to be pulled behind a certain train in a certain area. Who knows not seeing it or more info on it.
If your talking about the Jeb Bush ad, it's a computer simulation.
That's the one I saw...I figured it was probably a simulation, but it was train related, and just wondered if it was: one, a real train (not), and, two: if it was part of a series, since we are bombarded with political ads (for what seems like years). if anybody was making models of them. (I am only being partially facetious......they have made even more unlikely fantasy cars) And no, I won't collect them...
Personally, If I were running for office, I would not use an ad on a railroad car, unless it was going to be placed in a conspicuous place where it would be viewed frequently and would not be moved until my name was removed. Too much chance of angry motorists at crossings waiting for a slow (or stopped) train seeing it and blaming me. Negative associations don't win points with voters. 
Hey, there's always the Lionel Presidential boxcar series -- I can guarantee that those guys won the election. 
I saw that ad too and the train really caught my attention. It was so vivid that it makes sense that it was computer generated.
If real, imagine the graffiti magnet that any presidential candidate's boxcar might become once parked. Of course a moving train is safe but a digital one is even safer from the perils of the presidential primary spray can. Ah, remember the good old low tech days of stumping from the back of the observation car ...
Tomlinson Run Railroad
What about these cars? 
From the 2008 Lionel catalog.
Thanks,
Nickstrains.
Number 90 posted:.... Too much chance of angry motorists at crossings waiting for a slow (or stopped) train seeing it and blaming me. ...
and if there was a vegetable stand near-by, i could think of an even more imaginative way to express my opinion.
On the news this morning, somebody used something more solid than (unfrozen) vegetables to express something, against a passenger train in the NE corridor, breaking glass in a coach. I hope the gestapo pounce on whoever that is.
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