If you want traditional type non scale trains, these are a great value. I have been running about 5 Menards cars on the floor layout for some time and they are really nice. At about $20 a car it is easy to put several in your shopping cart. Once in a while paint colors vary, but, to me that adds variety. I have a B&O Sentinal box car and the blue looks very light compared to darker blue on a Railking car. When do you not see various fade of railcar paint though in real life? I bought a Menards Chessie System box car which looked too blue in the store but I liked it somehow. Once home under incandescent light the blue looked darker and matched my MTH Chessie darker blue cars. Under fluorescent lighting they look brighter blue, while the MTH Chessie blue looks the same under both types of light.
Anyway....these cars are well worth the money! Some of the flat cars can be mixed with scale cars very nicely.
