Check out these new intermodal shipping containers!
O Scale 40-Foot Schneider® Containers (279-4656, 4657) Shop now!
Dimensions: 9-1/2”L x 1-7/8”W x 2”H
Place them anywhere in your layout, or stack and transport them to their destination using an intermodal train car (Menards SKU# 279-3688, 3689). Each set even includes pins for simple stacking!
Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy
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Beauty.
I see lots of them on the real railroads......good to see scale versions!!
Home RUN! I am with Dave, I see them all over the place! Great addition!
Ordered a set of 4 well cars and extra containers, and the container lift tractor (and the free lighted cars). Menards does a great job for us O-scalers! -Ken
This is a great idea at a nice price. How well do the fit into the Atlas deep well cars? There are several other containers out there already, some fit better than others.
Menards. It doesn't appear there are slots to accommodate the Lionel intermodal Mi-Jack crane. Am I correct? They look great and I'd lake to add them but I need those slots. 
Thanks
The Lionel Mi Jack was set up to use 1/64 size containers not scale containers.
Maybe it could be redone to do the scale containers but I would not count on it.
Dave
Dave, thanks for the info. Very helpful when I look to add containers.
If you're a Santa Fe fan, you'll love these new intermodal shipping containers!
O Scale 40-Foot Santa Fe Containers (279-4658, 4659) Shop now!
Dimensions: 9-1/2”L x 1-7/8”W x 2”H
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Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy
Mark, Ever give any thought for a matching
diecast cab unit to haul these around?
UnclePeteRR
Good Lord... more real estate needed....Off to Menards again.....
I agree with Bob.
Those SF containers are gorgeous. I checked out all the views of it on the website. Just...running...out of...space....
Jerry
cabinet Bob posted:Good Lord... more real estate needed....Off to Menards again.....
LOL good thing your a wood worker and know how to build that stuff! but don't forget the green grass! LOL
Dad, you don't have to fool us. Menards has placed a trailer in your driveway a few short steps from your house....Those Santa Fe containers are a real eye catcher...........Paul
Too bad that they are not scale, I would get some of the Schneider ones.
I've been hoping Menards would expand the intermodal/container line. Keep them coming! Mark, any chance there will be a well car only offered in the future? It would be nice to have few to use with the 20' containers and the new 40' ones.
Rob
robmcc posted:I've been hoping Menards would expand the intermodal/container line. Keep them coming! Mark, any chance there will be a well car only offered in the future? It would be nice to have few to use with the 20' containers and the new 40' ones.
Rob
Hi Rob,
That's an interesting idea. Now that we sell the containers by themselves, an empty well car might be something to look into. Thanks for the input!
Mark the Menards Train Guy
Splendid idea- container ala carte if you will.
Maybe ?????
My wife has got me cut off from Menards till after we move.
SWAFFORD,
I like your ideas for Inter-Modal containers.
CabinetBob, Thats the idea. And maybe some empty well cars to
make a whole scene. I am trying to see if a can motorize your
diecast container forlift.
I like the SF containers, not prototypical but very nice. Time for order
Love the Santa Fe ones you have now and those Chessie ones look great too.
At first I didn't understand why my favorite home improvement store was making it's own line of O gauge train stuff.
Then it hit me. Menards sells what you need to add on to a house or build an out building.
This all a ploy to get us to add on to our houses or build out buildings.
I'm on to you guys 
Swafford posted:
These are much needed!
Menards already made some flat trailers!
Heres a flat with trailers from 2014
I've been hoping Menards would expand the intermodal/container line. Keep them coming! Mark, any chance there will be a well car only offered in the future? It would be nice to have few to use with the 20' containers and the new 40' ones.
Rob
"Hi Rob,
That's an interesting idea. Now that we sell the containers by themselves, an empty well car might be something to look into. Thanks for the input!"
I am seconding the idea for Menards to sell empty well cars, preferably sooner rather than later.
Awesome Mark!! My favorite road name too! I was going to order the Schneider ones on Friday. I guess I'll be adding to it! We REALLY need those empty well cars now.
Rob
I can see my intermodal Yard getting bigger too.....
I'm seconding (third-ing?) the idea of offering empty well cars, now that there is a growing selection of containers to put in them (Atlas O does this). One could conceivably acquire a string of well cars over time and economically equip them with a random-looking assortment of modern-looking containers, without having to figure out what to do with all those Yang Ming containers one would ordinarily have acquired in the process.
Viva Variety!
---PCJ
RailRide posted:I'm seconding (third-ing?) the idea of offering empty well cars, now that there is a growing selection of containers to put in them (Atlas O does this). One could conceivably acquire a string of well cars over time and economically equip them with a random-looking assortment of modern-looking containers, without having to figure out what to do with all those Yang Ming containers one would ordinarily have acquired in the process.
Viva Variety!
---PCJ
That's exactly why I've held off ordering any more cars. I planted the empty well car seed with Mark and he was quite receptive to the idea. Hopefully!
Rob
Not my era at all. But I sure do wish Menards would make more Southern equipment! I have a small fleet of their Southern boxcars. No tank cars, no hoppers of any type, no cabooses, no gondolas, no flatcars. Only one style boxcar.
Jim
Very nice indeed.
Now that's a shipping company I've never heard of.. but still I ORDERED.....
cabinet Bob posted:Now that's a shipping company I've never heard of.. but still I ORDERED.....
That shipping company's containers are a common sight on CSX trains traveling through Syracuse, New York.
JFC454 posted:cabinet Bob posted:Now that's a shipping company I've never heard of.. but still I ORDERED.....
That shipping company's containers are a common sight on CSX trains traveling through Syracuse, New York.
That's what I get for living in Iowa. We dont get to see great containers like this. They will look great on the layout!
Mrnards,
How soon, until you release a new Husky Stack freight car?
JFC454 posted:
cabinet Bob posted:Now that's a shipping company I've never heard of.. but still I ORDERED.....
That shipping company's containers are a common sight on CSX trains traveling through Syracuse, New York.
This is the CSX rose lake I haul out of there a lot just pulled 2 MSC Boxes today we call them “Med Boxes” MSC stands for Mediterranean shipping company. When we mount there containers we have to use a chassis pacifically for their boxes its called DCL I chassis pool
Bob - MSC, Mediterranean Shipping Company, is actually one of the larger international shipping container companies. I believe they are second only to Maersk in total volume. Here's a photo I took last month with one of their containers in action. Well, I just picked up my CSX and CN containers on Saturday. It looks like another order is on the horizon!
Rob
P.S, Mark, how are those empty well cars coming along?
@Menards posted:If you're a Santa Fe fan, you'll love these new intermodal shipping containers!
O Scale 40-Foot Santa Fe Containers (279-4658, 4659) Shop now!
Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy
Hello, Mark...
I tried to order the Menard's Santa Fe Intermodal containers yesterday, but I was unable to complete the transaction due to living in California (see attachment for explanation).
Unfortunately, the closest brick and mortar Menard's store is 1200 miles from where I live, so menards.com is my only option for making purchases.
Other online retailers provide the Prop 65 warning, but I've never encountered a transaction cancellation before. Is this an anomaly or will I not be able to purchase any train related products from Menard's?
Thank you, Bill
Mark, I have some War Bonnet boxes and plan to buy some more to
add to my Schneider ones. Kindly consider some empty to well cars
so my containers can be productive. UnclePeteRR
@Training Wheels posted:Hello, Mark...
I tried to order the Menard's Santa Fe Intermodal containers yesterday, but I was unable to complete the transaction due to living in California (see attachment for explanation).
Unfortunately, the closest brick and mortar Menard's store is 1200 miles from where I live, so menards.com is my only option for making purchases.
Other online retailers provide the Prop 65 warning, but I've never encountered a transaction cancellation before. Is this an anomaly or will I not be able to purchase any train related products from Menard's?
Thank you, Bill
Hi Bill,
As I'm sure you are aware, Proposition 65 requires special labeling on items sold to/in the state of California. Unfortunately, items that we've produced before the regulations were not labeled in accordance. Thus, we are unable to sell these to folks in California.
We've made adjustments since and we have an ever-expanding selection of items available for sale to CA but the Intermodal Containers are one of the items missing the Prop 65 warning labels.
Sorry for any frustrations this has caused.
-Mark the Menards Train Guy
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