----The fact that Nudge contributed a post -- [www.altamontpress.com] -- to this thread made me dig into it.

The exchange begun by Eddie's "What is the first car right after the locomotives hauling, kind of a strange look to it" question -- [www.altamontpress.com] -- made me wonder what I might dig up that might be an answer. For reference, here's a picture showing what I think Eddie was asking about --



I'm sparing you the details of my search, but my final gsearch was for [railroad car boeing bnsf] images -- [www.google.com] -- which turned up this page -- [model-railroad-hobbyist.com] -- where I found the image below, about 48% down the page, along with others.