(02/18/16) O Gauge Release from Menards!

Something Great Northern?

I'd definitely have to go with Great Northern.

C'mon, Menards!  Give us some Soo, or Wisconsin Central, at least!  Honor your roots!

I thinking a jade green Great Northern box car.

GN for sure.  Great logo but not my road.

Jerry

Could be a car aimed at us for paying attention to Marks funny puzzle posts.

Larry

Sounds like the wifey when I get a package from Menards.

Ya GN

Menards posted:

It’s been a rough spell lately with our teases. We’ve gone from beautiful ladies, to an eagle, and now a goat! What’s next? A sheep?

Anyhow, have a great weekend and I do think you’ll enjoy next week’s releases! (If it doesn’t get your goat) Stay tuned for updates.

As always, remember this hobby is supposed to be fun!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

If it's supposed to be fun, then why do you keep driving us crazy?

A goat? Oh, there will never be another ewe.

I know, I know. Puns are the lowest form of humor.

Jim

Great Northern Hopper...............................

Regards, Swafford

I am going with Great  Northern

No doubt Great Northern. I am saying a boxcar, a tanker, and a hopper.

Okay Menards normally do releases on Mondays right so why is this one being done in the middle of the week ( a Thursday ) theres a trick coming out of this you guys watch out it's may just be a bag of farm animals. He did say it is suppose to be fun right? 

I'm still waiting for Menards to release there First engine 

Casper the friendly goat! Final answer!

Still waiting for covered hoppers��

After thinking about it,Great Northern boxcars and tankers, and then, ( I hope, I hope) CNW boxcars and tankers later in the week! That being said I would love some covered hoppers any road and a few cabooses!

Happy Valentine's Day Menards and Mark! Love your products and your customer service! ( Don't tell my Dear wife I sent this) lol

Never have I wanted a weekend to speed by to get to Monday and find out what the new release from Menards will be. I am learning to not fill my mind with so many possibilities and just focus on Monday with no more anticipation of what it is going to be. They all have been great releases..............Paul

Paul, as was pointed out, this release is on Thursday.......please do not go berserk once realizing this......  :-)

Rick

Rick, thanks for your response, which I wished I did not see LOL. Thursday is a long way off which makes staying on the fence without falling a very big challenge so till then I am staying in a prone position till Thursday...................Paul

I believe if you check other posts there is a tease and a release tomorrow! Has to do with a really big bird! Lol

Thanks Play Trains. I stand corrected. Paul, this is going to be a very anxious week!!!!!!  :-)

Rick

OK, goats are not very "Friendly", but did interchange with SP at Portland, OR.

But GN did control the Q, NP, and SPS.  I don't think M would go off that far, but anything to get our goat is possible!

Yes it is Rick. The wife offered to lock me in a room till then but after thinking about that I thought she may throw away the key. But whatever it may be it will be a good seller....Paul

I say its a trick aimed at us old goats.  and its really a lumber car lettered for Loews or Home Depot .  just a early Aprils fools

Maybe a GTO 

Goat.... Hmmm. Shouts GN to me, which makes me jump to the sky blue Empire Builder, but that doesn't seem like a Mernards product to me...

Introducing the Great Northern Hopper and Tank Car!
(Although some of you have caught onto the hopper car already )

 These O gauge train cars feature realistic details, including a chassis with premium metal trucks and operating couplers. Each is beautifully painted and contains detailed logos from the Great Northern Railroad. Each train car is uniquely numbered, so no two cars are the same! SKU# 279-3045, 3486, 2680, 3491

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Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

And again-- ORDERED..... 

Does the hopper car have the optional cover?

Well, somebody had to be the goat.

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Does the hopper car have the optional cover?

no. it does not, just the coal load.. Bob

Those Great Northern graphics look good.

Andrew

When those hoppers coming out decorated for the Reading I'm in trouble!

Very nice!

Both cars, are great looking. I love the jade green paint on the tank car. Keep up the good work Menard's. Your freight cars are taking me back, to the good old MPC days.

Mark the Menards Train Guy

Hi Mark

I just sent a order in (military stuff) and another separate e-mail for your information.

I'm curious,  do you get to read any of them in reference to train information?

Larry

Anyone else notice that one of the tank car's axles appears dislodged from its journal?

---PCJ