When it comes to model railroading of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's...

Given the number of types of cars and the number of possible liveries in the period, it is understandable that MTH/Lionel missed many. While Kline, Weaver and Atlas did fill in a lot of gaps, there is still a lot of stuff not made.

The forum threads on what folks want in the "next" catalog usually include requests for "never" made rolling stock as well as never made engines.I suppose many pieces will never be made because the economics of the train business will not support filling the gap.

On the other hand, we do have a lot of stuff (such as Christmas, Halloween, Area 51, etc.) which you will not see on your old films or videos.

Tony
Waiting for someone to make a ALCO Century 415

I know I have some Golden West from Weaver and a couple Styles of Railbox from Atlas Trainman.
I feel like the Mfgs for the most part stay away from modern third party lease companies over traditional RRs.

Mopac and TP rolling stock has been terribly neglected.MTH and Lionel insist on doing crazy fantasy schemes based on the Mopac merchandise cars.Atlas has offered more correct cars than anyone but they are very hard to find as they sell out quickly.Lionel did make a nice 40' boxcar and open hopper a few years back.There are dozens of very attractive and eye catching cars left to make.A lot of the later cars have the neat Eagle crossing the sun logo.(One historic note:It's NOT a Buzzsaw-it's the sun shining,MP's top passenger train before the Eagle was the Sunshine Limited,it's referenced in all the early MP literature and early logos.)

Ricky