Model Railroad Cars

Question about railroad ‘cattle cars’?

I am running an express load of live cattle in cattle cars on my model railroad.
I am wondering what era are these appropriate?

certainly a 60s era railroad could get away with this prototypically. stock cars being phased out in the early to mid 70s. after 1977 i would think it would be a rare thing to see. oddly enough i have seen poultry trucks (semi trailers) on TOFC cars later than that. and ofcourse that would be a perishable or express train ofcourse. and i have not seen that in a decade or so. depending on what class railroad you model, a class 1 would not do this now. however class 2 and 3, say in a rural area, to this day could be explained away with a lil bit of modelers discretion/license.

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