+1 to what Fred said, with two additional vendors:
- MBW: Make [ well, import ], inter alia, the "hopper" and "covered hopper" cars often seen in unit trains, with which 44's, especially the oil fired version, were most well know in the 70's.
- Kiss: Although also a brass importer they have done some mass produced cars, especially the 6 axle heavy duty flatcars. These could be used individually with, for example, steel billet loads, or as a unit train with, say, M48 tanks.....
But a through freight would give the greater variety -- and you could also use some of the older cars manufactured by 0-Scale-Models, Pola/Raimo, or Rivarossi.
I would like to especially recommend one or more of the Brawa container cars -- some of the finest plastic models yet made in 0 scale, in my opinion. Just go easy on the beer, refrigerator, and stock cars -- in a typical BR 44 freight those would most likely be empty.
Best regards, SZ
