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I think Menards has a nice mix of offering both prototypical paint and some that use artistic license to create some nice looking but more toy train type cars.  The Conrail blue hopper is actually, as some have stated, reminiscent of a Tyco HO train car of my youth.   Not a thing wrong with that!   That is the car I will buy actually.  The bulk of Menards train market is during Christmas.  Christmas is a time of relaxing a bit, and having fun with colorful toy trains.   The less realistic schemes will not run in my prototypical consists but it will run on the Christmas floor layout with other less prototypical trains.  I do hope Menards will offer the same Conrail hopper in boxcar red with white logos, and I bet they will.  I also hope they make a green with white graphics and a black with white graphics Penn Central hopper.  

I shop at the local Menards regularly.  I notice that the rolling stock inventory sells out. The shelf is full one day and whiped out the next. I see shoppers placing 3 or more cars at a time in their shopping cart.  At $20 a car it is easy for people to place a few cars in their cart.  

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