My beef with the current scale stock car offerings is that I think they're all too modern. Yes, Atlas, Lionel, MTH and others make fine models--BUT. Most of their prototypes are of cars built (or converted) from about 1940 onwards.
I, for one, would like to see a kit for one of the older composite (wood and metal) stock cars built in the 1920's and 1930's. Those would not only be entirely appropriate for steam-era railroads, but many of those cars lingered on into the early second-generation diesel era, about the time when most stock car movements stopped anyway.
Lionel's 6656 may be very toy-like, but it resembles a widespread style of stock car that isn't available in scale from our vendors.
