Glad to see the Menard's has become "part of the family". They've been dabbling in 3rail trains stuff for several years and I know that at least several of the family are fellow train guys. Not related, but perhaps most of us are aware that Paul Menard is prominent in NASCAR's Sprint Cup stock car series and Lionel is involved in that sport through it's stock car model series.
Some of their new train stuff has really been nice and priced reasonably, too.
Paul Fischer