Ted raises a good point. If your question is the broader one of whether there is much equipment available to model modern railroading the answer is "yes." This manifest freight (I hope you don't mind the Iphone video) uses some of the cars Ted mentions. Almost all are 60s and 70s era designs, but that's OK because the video represents a date no later than 1995, and many of those cars were still in service. (Now if only someone would make some PC&F insulated box cars in Santa Fe, I'd be set...). The cars, by the way are a mix of two and three rail. Some are stock two rail and some are three rail converted to two rail:
Though Santa Fe operations between 1990 and 1995 (still "modern"?) are my real interest, every now and then, just to change things up, I update the layout to today, and use cars like the Trinity hoppers and high cubes to pull off the effect. Here again several cars are stock two rail (the hoppers) or converted (the gondolas) or three rail (the high cubes):
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