We describe some recently discovered connections between one-dimensional interacting particle models and Macdonald polynomials and show the combinatorial objects that make this connection explicit. The first such model is the multispecies asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) on a ring, linked to the symmetric Macdonald polynomials P_\lambda through its partition function, with multiline queues as the corresponding combinatorial object. The second particle model is the multispecies totally asymmetric zero range process (TAZRP) on a ring, which was recently found to have an analogous connection to the modified Macdonald polynomial H_\lambda. The combinatorial objects interpolating between probabilities of the TAZRP and the modified Macdonald polynomials turn out to be tableaux with a queue inversion statistic. We explain the plethystic relationship between multiline queues and queue inversion tableaux, and along the way, derive a new formula for P_\lambda using the queue inversion statistic. This plethystic correspondence is closely related to fusion in the setting of integrable systems.