Love to see more building flats made. Not so much front of the buildings but maybe with just train loading and unloading docks or even some with a covered train shed. also made so you could put more then one side by side to make longer buildings. also some older style buildings from the early 1900's. ......Paul 2

Blast furnace! Steel mill!

A 1970s era Amtrak station.   Hammond IN, Canton, OH are examples of the type.

Buffalo NY Depew one example as in this link:

http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/buffalo_depew.htm

M&Ms factory.  I know you did the building flat for M&Ms.

Neal Jeter

Wonder Bread, Hostess Cake Plant with a smoke unit in the stack so you can use Mega Steam Baking Bread scented smoke fluid

I would love to see a Pillsbury manufacturing plant.

Margaritaville restaurant with Jimmy Buffett sign.

I definitely second Paul’s suggestions. I’d also like to see more industries with flat backs like grain silos or coal/ore mines. An older style freight building/depot would be nice too.

As far as non-train related buildings, I’d like to see: a city hall, a gazebo/city park, a drive in theater with concession stands, and a 1950’s highway motel.

I would have also said a church, but you beat me to it with a nice offering!

I would second the drive in theater with concession stands. 

I’d like a enhanced selection of residential houses...farm homes, two story city houses, older 1920 vintage.

Domino Sugar

A Wisconsin cheese factory (think Mullins Cheese), a paper mill, a Wisconsin/Minnesota supper club, The Brat Stop, another version of the sauerkraut factory (mine didn't work), a country tavern, a tourist gift shop (Dells, Cherryland, etc. signage) and the National Railroad museum.  These all have buildings right in your back yard to model .

I would love to see a hillside coal mine

Or even some small old west buildings that could be used for a kid's layout:

Ebinger bakery plant

Bohack Super market

Johns Bargain Store

Prince, WV passenger station.

Still being used by Amtrak.

Scott Smith

I'll take a Bohack and a White Castle !

Any of these skyscrapers (as flats) but in a more professional version with the great lighting and details that Menards is so good at...

Water treatment plant

When you make the Wonder/Hostess/ Interstate Bakeries Corporation factory be sure to make some "Happy Birthday America" Hoppers as well!  Some plain Wonder/ Hostess hoppers would be cool as well.  If you can only do one, go for the bicentennial.   

Back to buildings I would love a vintage Stuckey's & a generic looking old school gas station that came with different brands you could put on it.   While I am dreaming I would love for it to either come with pumps from multiple eras or you guys could sell the pumps separately.  I know the 50's  "transition era" is popular.  I would like a building generic enough that it wouldn't look out of place with 50's style logos and pumps, yet would also look ok with 70's-80's era mechanical pumps.    I think Walther's used to have something like this (it did not come with any logos).  Many 50's and 60's gas station building hung on until the 80's or later.  I suspect a few are still in use.

Mark,

I also think that a drive-in movie theater would be great.

A drive-in restaurant like a Sonic or classic style from the 50’s would also be nice to have as well.

Both are great ways to display everyone’s die cast cars.

Thanks for all that you’re doing for the hobby.

Chris

To focus in on a part of the above post.

ACFX 56670 in the Bicentennial scheme was leased to HOSTESS / WONDER BREAD. It was a 5250 Cubic Foot Capacity, ACF CENTER FLOW 4-bay covered hopper.

K-Line once had that type of ACF CENTER FLOW, 5250 Cu. Ft., 4-bay covered hoppers produced in Aluminum in O scale.

MENARDS needs to find a way to produce them again in Plastic or Aluminum, then apply that HOSTESS scheme plus the WISCONSIN CENTRAL scheme.

Andrew

Falcon Service

A Howard Johnson Resturant. A icing station were blocks of ice are loaded into refrigator cars.

A Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, you have licensed other food emporiums so maybe a KK would be possible.

A long icing platform with an operating conveyor belt that moves numerous blocks of ice.

Several remotely controlled figures of men with large poles push the ice from the conveyor belt into the refrigerator cars through the roof hatches or the open doors.

Andrew

I would like to see an extension to your restaurant line. Maybe McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, etc. This of course is for a more modern layout and I know there are licensing issues but it's been done in other scales. Also, maybe an apartment building that would fit nicely on most layouts.

Dave

A track side warehouse flat with loading dock the correct height for boxcars.  Or similar industry structure (furniture, etc.).

THE DOMINO SUGAR BUILDING - EPIC!!!!!!!!!

More building flats like the first one you did.  

Ben;

You’re killing me - a Bohack to go along with your next beer cars and Ebingers. If they make an Ebinger’s store as opposed to the factory, they would have to include a couple of women in white smocks wearing hair nets... and those green boxes!!! I can taste the crumb cake and iced kringles!!! I’d be definitely in for one of each - preferably as flats, I think.

Steak n Shake (50's-70's) Dog n Sud's drive in.

Rusty

Walthers Steel Mill series has been HUGELY successful.  I suggest doing a series of O Scale flats of the FORD River Rouge complex.  Not only could you do different sides of the plant which included multiple assembly buildings, a glass plant, a steel mill all types of sub steel mfg components an iconic Ford Water tower but all the tangential products Menards could do.  There is / was a huge freighter dock in the middle of the plant to off load ore, coal, sand.  So Lake Freighters could go with line, tugs, so many additional smalls.  Cranes, gantrys conveyers, unlimited industrial options.  Ford Rouge had it all.

DETROIT EDISON CONNOR AVE POWER PLANT - EAST SIDE OF DETROIT - also known as the seven sisters.

A nice lighthouse. A dockside shanty. Boatyard boats. Seafood market with delivery truck.

@scott.smith posted:

Prince, WV passenger station.

Still being used by Amtrak.

Scott Smith

WITH the Cat on the floor!!!! Now we are DREAMING!

How about "Dave's Garage" to go with the freebie pickup currently being offered.

@mustang posted:

How about "Dave's Garage" to go with the freebie pickup currently being offered.

they already sold Dave’s Garage. You can find them on the bay.

As was said above....industrial flats could be used together

@Diverging Clear posted:

Steak n Shake (50's-70's) Dog n Sud's drive in.

Rusty

Beat me to it.  Steak n Shake!

I’ll second the idea for a ‘70’s Amtrak station.

Ardmore, PA

Paoli, PA

This style of bungalow, an early 20th century standard that remains a prominent architectural type in older neighborhoods into the 21st century.

Wow! Ask and thou will receive. Lots of great suggestions.

This particular freight station, produced by Tyco (pictured) in HO and Bachmann in N scale 50 years ago, but never by anyone in O scale.

An on going series of Oil Refinery structures & Steel Mill structures!!

A bakery front patterned after the old Revell HO bakery would be very cool. It'd be better if the entire building was in kit form, but I know that's not likely.

Have they done a sanding tower?

@jhz563 posted:

Have they done a sanding tower?

  Like the idea of engine yard accessories like a sanding tower/shed, ash pit, etc.  Please don’t make them oversized like the water tower.

A few thoughts come to mind

- Modular Grain Elevator: Section A is a standalone grain elevator with several silos, the Section B has silos that can be added to the first section to expand the overall building. One can add multiple B sections together to extend the overall length of silo.
Examples of configurations: A ,  A+B ,  A+B+B ,  A+B+B+B , etc....



- Modular Icing Platform: Similar design to the above mentioned grain elevator, this icing platform can be built-up in sections. Each section (P) would have a set of removable steps that can be mounted on either side of the platform section. This way one can tailor the length of the icing platform to the space they have
Examples of configurations: P (w/ steps) , P (w/ steps)+P (w/ steps) , P (w/ steps)+P ,  P (w/ steps)+P+P , etc...

-  F.W. Woolworth Co. Building: I haven't seen one made yet in O gauge

If you want further info on these product ideas, my email is in my profile.

Bryce

Colonial style brick or stone church other than the country style churches currently made and a similar style city hall.  Structures that can anchor a town square.

guys as nice a some of the suggestions here are. they my be too elaborate and unrealistic for menards to build.

mark, here is an idea that is sure to fit all eras and model rr. it can be made using the products you most likely already are using and takes up a very small space. it can be put against a wall or stand alone. this style of building if made with two loading doors would be great for spotting box cars on the layout. just make it about 30 inches long and 10 in wide and 10 high.this would accommodate all lenths of box cars to be used. a sign atop the building could be made in a long rectangular shape. non lighted and with multiple factory  name via stickers for placement buy purchaser. or whe could make our own. just light up the interior and it would look great and very down town industrial on any layout from oscale to ho scale. here is a photo of one thats been done years ago by someone.

Is love to see a cripple creek wood coal tower to pair with the water tower and engine house

@Menards posted:

This thread is specifically for buildings you'd like us to make.

Post reference photos if you have them!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

Dunkin' Donuts and/or Wawa

Southern Pacific passenger station.  Never done in O Gauge.

@Diverging Clear posted:

Steak n Shake (50's-70's) Dog n Sud's drive in.

Rusty

I agree on a Dog n Suds Drive in. One is located in Tomahawk, WI.

To be practical, I would make the structure with 6 to 8 car stalls total. Otherwise it might be too large for some O gauge layouts. Most properties started out as Drive in only. Some locations added sit down later. Not looking for a neon sign, just the current logo lighted.

@Scott R posted:

Is love to see a cripple creek wood coal tower to pair with the water tower and engine house

I have been posting on this board to Menards for years for a large footprint, weathered coaling station/tower  structure.  So far, it has fallen on deaf ears..................................

@JD2035RR posted:

I would love to see a hillside coal mine

Or even some small old west buildings that could be used for a kid's layout:

Now that coaling facility would be great, been asking Menard's for years for something along that line.

There would be some licensing issues, and only those with contemporary layouts would possibly be interested.

How about the Outdoor Man store from Last Man Standing?

@VinceL posted:

There would be some licensing issues, and only those with contemporary layouts would possibly be interested.

How about the Outdoor Man store from Last Man Standing?

Good idea....but it got cancelled......

@AMCDave posted:

Good idea....but it got cancelled......

I must have missed that thread.

Dang!

East coast supermarkets like Food fair, Acme, Pathmark, Jewel, A&P and many others. All these are closed now except for Acme.

Many pictures of each on the Web.

Another thought is Horn and Hardant  automat restaurant. Great signage!

Dave

Lots of great ideas here! Hope we see some of them made!! A tavern or 2 would be nice, a hospital maybe with a helicopter and an ambulance entering, an  oil refinery, a liquor store , I really like the Outdoor Man store or something like that!!

@david1 posted:

East coast supermarkets likeFood fair, Acme, Pathmark, Jewel, A&P and many others. All these are closed now except for Acme.

Many pictures of each on the Web.

Another thought is Horn and Hardant  automat restaurant. Great signage!

Dave

I'm in for a Food Fair store:  my first job with a paycheck at 15 years old in 1962.

I'd buy a Dog n Suds.  Like that idea.  You could make the sign animated.

A classic roadside Holiday Inn would be fun.  Chase lights in the sign...

How about an old 1950’s style shiny metal diner???

There are so many great ideas on this thread! I am definitely in favor of some more flat buildings.

This is a very biased recommendation, but I'd love to see the Marceline, MO depot turned into a building - both HO and O scales. Marceline is my native hometown, and I think it had one of the most beautiful train stations in the Midwest. Although no trains stop there anymore, it has a wonderful new life as the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. Disney and his family lived there for several years during his boyhood in the early 20th century, and it was in Marceline where he discovered his passion for drawing, as well as his lifelong affinity with trains.

Personally, I think the brickwork and architecture of this station would make it an attractive model that could be an amazing addition to any of our layouts. I appreciate this thread and the opportunity for all of us to share our ideas - thank you!

Just make them all Mark! You know we’ll buy them 😆

Agree with steel mill.

Rolling Rock Brewery,Latrobe

Cement Plant to go with your Materials Silos.

Concrete Plant for your mixers feeding the concrete building.

Asphalt Plant again for your Materials Silos.

@Jim Brenner posted:

A bakery front patterned after the old Revell HO bakery would be very cool. It'd be better if the entire building was in kit form, but I know that's not likely.

Ypu can do it by kitbashing ameritown structures such as the theater, police station, etc those kits that have the arch brick and inserts.

Most of those above are too specific or extremely local. We all have a "local", and a bakery (etc) across the country doesn't perk me up.

Not your thing, but more heavy industry, maybe modular so that we can buy all or part ("Collect All Three!"). Small portions of big industries.

And: flats, flats, flats - which can fit in with the "small portions of big industries" idea.

I like the idea of a oil refinery that is modular. Make it about one foot square with the ability to put 2 or 3 side by side. And since Menard's has a connection with some oil companies.....maybe a nice 50's era Valvoline plant.

Not a refinery but the Valvoline dist office 1960 in LA...

OK,

So what does the competition NOT have or no longer make.

1.  Pedestrian overpasses.

Discontinued:

http://www.lionel.com/products...kover-green-6-37115/

https://www.walthers.com/atlas...kit-6-quot-clearance

https://www.worthpoint.com/wor...-pedestrian-19791730

https://mthtrains.com/30-9053

These can also be cut in half to make stairs for elevated lines.

2.  30" long scale bridge girder plate sections that can be cut to length.  One supplier makes them (26.5 inches).

3.  Long stair sections with hand rails that we can cut to the length we need.  Usually that involves a lot of work to piece together.

@AMCDave posted:

Good idea....but it got cancelled......

But the building used for the “Last Man Standing” Outdoor Man’s exterior shots is simply a Bass Pro Shops store, specifically in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Not a bad idea.

@Jim R. posted:

But the building used for the “Last Man Standing” Outdoor Man’s exterior shots is simply a Bass Pro Shops store, specifically in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Not a bad idea.

As you can tell I do make a living as a comedian.  My comment was a play on words....the building was planned but cancelled.....much like the TV show......back to model trains for me!

How bout the STEGMAIER Brewery in Wilkes Barre! PA.  I worked there cleaning up after the AGNES Flood in 72.

1.A Hospital based on the Police/Fire station footprint with a Rescue copter on top.

2. A the Theater with chase lights like the old "Elektra" one.

3. A operating, waving American Flag. Smaller computer fans are cheap and the trick is to

match the airflow (CFM) and make a small diagonal duct on the non flag side of the fan to direct

the airflow to the flag side.

Thank you Mark for soliciting suggestions.  UnclePeteRR

Add on US Flag/Theater ideas.

Flag should be made out of some nylon light weight type

of material.

Theater could added marquee  lettering so customers could

spell out their favorite movie. "Palace Theater" is a much more

widely used name.

https://www.google.com/search?...VMpZ4KHcZLBEUQ_AUoAn

Flats, something say less than 1" thick. I know Menards likes to do tie-ins, but maybe not the company artwork and logos of the 2021, maybe logos etc of the 50s to 90s?

How about a product with Miller Engineering lights? Morton Salt?

(The following picture is hotlinked from Miller Engineering website, could cause bandwidth problems for them).

@paul 2 posted:

Love to see more building flats made. Not so much front of the buildings but maybe with just train loading and unloading docks or even some with a covered train shed. also made so you could put more then one side by side to make longer buildings. also some older style buildings from the early 1900's. ......Paul 2

I too agree w/ Paul's suggestion of more building flats (especially the often real world rear track facing side).  Maybe Menards can design two separate types that can work independently or together.

1. Product A:  multi-unit building/arcade style (brick or wood) style commercial front w/ Menards clever train pass-thru back.
2. Product B:  the coordinating rear-side of Product A that typically faces the railroad tracks and includes a variety of rear entry doors, larger loading doors/docks for trucks and/or a boxcar.  Since Product B is the track-side rear it would not include the train pass-thru feature.

Menards has come out with many excellent building options over the past several years. Many of which require some serious space. The much less depth of a few inch facade can appeal to a wide audience and be placed in many spaces.

@DMASSO posted:

A nice lighthouse. A dockside shanty. Boatyard boats. Seafood market with delivery truck.

Yes - Great Idea for Menards a Holiday Inn

How about convenience store like Wawa, 7-Eleven or Quiktrip?

@AMCDave posted:

WITH the Cat on the floor!!!! Now we are DREAMING!

Best floor ever!!

Scott Smith

A country supper club that was founded during the prohibition era.....  Duck Inn...

@IRON HORSE posted:

A country supper club that was founded during the prohibition era.....  Duck Inn...

Love It!

Diesel Locomotive fueling facility with storage tank.

More taverns would be great.

I think the rule is you need 3 taverns for every church.

In some areas that is reversed but I remember many small towns that seemed to have a tavern or a church on every corner in the middle of town.

If you made a chasing Holiday Inn sign you would have a license to print money.  The Great Sign has it's own facebook page with quite a few members.

I love the idea of a 7-11.  K Line had one years ago, no idea who wound up with the tooling. 

How about a KFC restaurant with a rotating bucket sign! It could go next to the Holiday Inn and the Howard Johnson.

Awesome suggestions like the idea of 7 eleven. Dunkin’ Donuts or dawn donuts

any building with a fan driven smoke unit would be awesome!!  Could be factories bakeries or houses with working chimney

carnival stands with smoke units such as making popcorn or cotton candy.

working LEd camp fire accessory with smoke unit

Like the holiday inn idea with neon sign, Amtrak station with Miller engineering neon ticket sign.  

what about a local home town Sears hardware?

would like to see the expansion of the restaurant line as mentioned Burger King subway kfc

Oh A Pizza Hut would be classic too

JT mega steam would need to make a pizza scent for kitchen smoke unit haha

@Garfield posted:

More taverns would be great.

I think the rule is you need 3 taverns for every church.

I've lived in a town that had a tavern on every corner in the "downtown" area and along the main route in through town.   I would suspect the ratio was more like 9 to 1.   A few of the older majestic churches were closed or converted into - a bar/restaurant or a law office.

Train stations seem to be requested a lot here.  I would agree, but what about a station platform with adjustable height?

Pabst Brewery, or any large brewery for that matter. As a dedicated beer lover, you can never have too many breweries. I also second the idea of a Howard Johnson, maybe the restaurant-hotel combo.

Cheers, Pete

@PilotPete posted:

Pabst Brewery, or any large brewery for that matter. As a dedicated beer lover, you can never have too many breweries. I also second the idea of a Howard Johnson, maybe the restaurant-hotel combo.

Cheers, Pete

Funny thing is Pabst doesnt have any breweries they own  Miller does all their brewing even though Pabst owns the recipes to about 40 local beers

Nobody makes a Santa Fe mission style station in O gauge.  These stations are found thru out  western United States.  I would definitely buy one of those. 

I would buy Santa Fe Mission style station.

Roadside motel similar to this HO model that's on the market:

I definitely agree that a 1950s Drive in Theatre with concessions would be great to have! A roadside motel would be a nice addition as well. For something on the "seedy side" of town, I would like to see a casino or brothel like the one seen in the model town in the film Beetlejuice. 

Would like to see a power substation to go with the power and light plant. Enclosed in a chain link fence with a couple of inspectors working inside the fence.

The brewery subject keeps popping up among the other personal favorites we all have. Although I did purchase the Sprecher offering (yet to be renamed) I too would like to see my personal favorite, Fauerbach or Leinengkugels, would do nicely.

With that said, one category we haven't seen to date is a drugstore. How about a Rennebohm Drugstore. A Wisconsin staple for decades with 30 stores until purchased by Walgreens back in 1980.

I will repost my request with out a Picture .   I would like a wooden Grain Elevator .   

My original post was deleted .   My guess is I borrowed a picture from the internet . They did not like that . 

Rennebaum. Wow! I haven't thought of them since we left Middleton in 1960.  I think recommending Wisconsin-based industries is a good idea. The suggestion may appeal to Menards, does appeal to us Badgers, and will hopefully appeal to everyone else ... particularly if the industry is a brewery.

An adjustable length semi log hauler (log less or course) so one could

add a limb from the backyard for realism.

I know these aren't buildings but steam and diesel cab figures similar to MTH would be nice and extra add on figures for existing buildings like people with shopping carts for supermarket parking lots and figures that would go with other buildings you already offerd,

How about something that has been absent from the model railroading world, a nice large school. I just threw this one as a suggestion from my hometown but something that is two stories or so. Maybe something similar in design to the Dept. 56 Snowy Hills hospital, I think a lot of different buildings (school, hospital, etc.) can be made from this one design.

@RJ I posted:

How about something that has been absent from the model railroading world, a nice large school. I just threw this one as a suggestion from my hometown but something that is two stories or so. Maybe something similar in design to the Dept. 56 Snowy Hills hospital, I think a lot of different buildings (school, hospital, etc.) can be made from this one design.

I agree, a school would be ideal. I small two story building would fit in anywhere from the 1950's to now. Plus this style of building could be used for other types of buildings.

I know my youngest son wants to buy the new church but modify it into a school. I'd hold him off if I knew a school was in the works.

James

Make a Royal movie theater with The Last Picture Show on the marquee, Sonny Crawford and Jacy Farrow standing side-by-side at the ticket window, a 1940's Chevy pickup plugged in out front and Jack standing guard on the sidewalk.

What, me worry?

A lumber mill, a sporting goods store. a diner and a radio station.

Here are a few.....

....a downtown city block with this store as a centerpiece.....

Peter

Since you’ve already done Taco Bell and Starbucks, how about Waffle House next? I would buy it.

For West Coasters: In-N-Out Burger (50s or Modern)

For East Coasters: A Classic Diner

I am also in for a coaling tower & some nice yard lights like MTH's Floodlights (since they are leaving us soon)

How about some older downtown buildings, 2 or 3 story, and small footprint? Notice all the decorative exterior trimwork on these.

There have been so many great suggestions on this thread.

I hope Menards doesn't make too many of them....I don't have enough room on my layout and I don't have enough money to buy them all.

I have room in one corner of my layout for a "bikers roadhouse".

Couldn't you just add a "Welcome Bikers!" banner on my Supper Club and call it a day?

Love the roadhouse idea!

Couldn't you just put a"welcome Bikers" sign on a Howard Johnson's and make it a biker supper club!

Iron Horse and Dave -  It just doesn't seem to fit .  Supper Club/Roadhouse,  Howard Johnson's/Roadhouse,

Biker Bar/Roadhouse

@Putnam Division posted:

....a downtown city block with this store as a centerpiece.....

Peter

YES!!!

I can always hope...

There's more but you guys get the general idea!

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

I can always hope...

There's more but you guys get the general idea!

Jerry

Those would be pretty easy to reproduce today using a laser cutter and printed texture. Laser would be easier and cheaper than the die cut method used back in the day. IIRC the windows were screen printed which you can do on a printer today.

@wild mary posted:

Iron Horse and Dave -  It just doesn't seem to fit .  Supper Club/Roadhouse,  Howard Johnson's/Roadhouse,

Biker Bar/Roadhouse

I concede, Wild Mary, you're right. But my layout already has an MTH Harley shop, an MTH Harley drive-in diner and a blues club where the Rolling Stones are playing small gigs now that they are old.  My supper club would truly welcome bikers!  But if your roadhouse shows up at Menards instead of my supper club, I'll buy one!  And then I can park some of my scooters in front it as well as the Menards' Howard Johnsons, too. Or a Holiday Inn

Menards does a great job thinking out of the box for their structure releases
I would like then to make a couple of dilapidated houses. These house could be modified buy the buyer to suit their need as a haunted house/hobo house/building slated for demolition or just houses in a run down neighborhood. If you look at a lot of the structures the weathering is minimal. Menard’s could make make a need structure and maybe just modifying some of their own designs.

A cemetery would be nice with a hurst and people with head stones, something to go along with the new church. They could also put funny sayings on th tomb stones.

Since Menards is out of Wisconsin a good choice would be another Wisconsin company like CULVERS.

@AMCDave posted:

Those would be pretty easy to reproduce today using a laser cutter and printed texture. Laser would be easier and cheaper than the die cut method used back in the day. IIRC the windows were screen printed which you can do on a printer today.

I'd love to see them in plastic, even if it were a kit. The ones I have have seen better days.

Jerry

Another suggestion is a moderately sized turntable - 20 inches or so - for traditional sized locomotives.  Manual operation would be great, but it should be designed in a way to allow an aftermarket motor addition.

Not sure if mentioned but a Big Boy restaurant.  Then we could add neon sign and spinning big boy statute from Miller Engineering

How about a Cripple Creek freight station

Car dealership

You need to determine a specific year for a CAR DEALERSHIP.

Andrew

Being a modern era guy I’d like to see a Culver’s and a modern gas station please!!

Piggybacking on the modern gas station idea, I was going to suggest a Kwik Trip. But I’m afraid I might be picky. I probably would want it to closely resemble the actual stores, which aren’t exactly dinky convenience stores. That’s probably more real estate then what most hobbyists would want to give up for such an accessory.

Here are a few

1. Reissue or retool the bar and grill. I saw the original on a Facebook and forgot how much i loved it
2. Someone mentioned a domino sugar building. As long as it has a light up sign, I’d buy one.

3. Make another brewery with a more recognizable brand. Obviously I’d love a natty Boh one, but the chances are lower than hitting the lottery!

I look forward to new products, as it has been a while since anything new has come from menards.

@mountain482 posted:

I would love to see a Pillsbury manufacturing plant.

With a Doughboy gigling soundchip!

@mowingman posted:

How about some older downtown buildings, 2 or 3 story, and small footprint? Notice all the decorative exterior trimwork on these.

Buildings and building fronts.  Various period items wpuld sell.

@Dominic Mazoch posted:

Buildings and building fronts.  Various period items wpuld sell.

Have you not seen the WEB STORE link at the top of the page?

Now I have.  Those might just work.  Time period looks good.

I still want a small meat packing plant with an adjoining stock pen, or the pen can be a separate offering.  My stock cars have been hosed out and are just sitting on sidings homeless.

@jlm1973 posted:

Since Menards is out of Wisconsin a good choice would be another Wisconsin company like CULVERS.

I live below the "Cheddar Curtain " but every summer our family spends several weekends in Madison or Milwaukee. I would also like to see some buildings with a Wisconsin flair, like a Mader's restaurant or a Usinger's Sausage factory,  or the best one yet, State Street Brats with the iconic Bucky statue out front.   

I'd be interested in one of the smaller Sears catalog houses from the turn of the last century or, better yet, a small Craftsman-style  (aka Arts and Crafts architectural style) cottage of the sort that used to be so common in the mid-west. Just the house; don't bother with the garage,

@JD2035RR posted:

I would love to see a hillside coal mine

Or even some small old west buildings that could be used for a kid's layout:

I keep suggesting the idea for a weathered coal mine facility year after year after year after year.  So far has fallen on deaf ears.  Please, I have coal hoppers cars that need to be filled........................

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)  with a revolving bucket sign.

A Runza Hut!

@third rail posted:

I live below the "Cheddar Curtain " but every summer our family spends several weekends in Madison or Milwaukee. I would also like to see some buildings with a Wisconsin flair, like a Mader's restaurant or a Usinger's Sausage factory,  or the best one yet, State Street Brats with the iconic Bucky statue out front.   

I have a daughter living in Milwaukee and I like going to Mader's when we are in town. I really like your idea of Mader's or Usinger's Sausage factory.

@John H posted:

Have you not seen the WEB STORE link at the top of the page?

There is only one building front with a loading dock usable as a track side industry.  Need a lot more choices.

@wild mary posted:

I have room in one corner of my layout for a "bikers roadhouse".

A great ice cream shop for a biker rest stop would be good too

@jrstengel posted:

...snip...  or Usinger's Sausage factory.

I have a Usinger's sign and never knew where it came from; now I know. Thank you.

@IRON HORSE posted:

I'd buy a Dog n Suds.  Like that idea.  You could make the sign animated.

That exact Dog & Suds is 2 blocks from my office in Grayslake, Il.  Would make a great layout addition.

I'd like to see a variety of smaller one & two story homes from the early to mid-20th century.  The houses that you made so far are great (remind me of architectural models) but a large footprint on the layout. 

How about a Spanish Mission style station such as found through out the west.