If they turn out to be a good puller and reliable, I'd love to see it offered in an SP black widow paint scheme.
@cabinet Bob posted:
Alrighty Bob... Do your duty and post up some close up pics and video. Let's see how slow you can get it to crawl... Pop off the shell too and let's see it's innards! 
Rusty Traque: pretty sure you misread Marty’s post. He was referring to the Remote resembling the Lionel Lionchief remote. Not the engine itself.
@TedW posted:Rusty Traque: pretty sure you misread Marty’s post. He was referring to the Remote resembling the Lionel Lionchief remote. Not the engine itself.
Thanks Ted. That’s exactly what I said.
Great to see that they are sold out. Let’s hope all the bugs can be worked out and more locomotives will be offered.
@Bill Sherry posted:A little surprised here also. Had to order one and check it out, only 200 being made and its only $146.00. They advertise $129.99 with the worthless rebate for those of us on east coast that would not be able to drop in to use the $16.00 rebate. But still at $146.00 I gave it a shot. I believe they showed a delivery date in July - lets see. JP
You can always send it to a friend or OGR member that can use it. Their prices always seem fair and the rebate is a bonus. Know any seniors in "Menardsville" land? I'm sure they'd appreciate the gift.
Fantastic news for the O gauge hobby! Cannot wait to read the feedback.
Lets talk repair work. Who will do it? How long is the warranty good for? Will we be able to buy parts and do the repair work ourselves?
@Former Member posted:Alrighty Bob... Do your duty and post up some close up pics and video. Let's see how slow you can get it to crawl... Pop off the shell too and let's see it's innards!
If the loco can come close to a crawl, I would be ecstatic. Speed control is likely my favorite feature of legacy/dcs engines, so any bit of tweaking to provide smooth slow speed operation would be greatly appreciated.
@jim sutter posted:Lets talk repair work. Who will do it? How long is the warranty good for? Will we be able to buy parts and do the repair work ourselves?
That is the sixty four thousand dolor question.
@jim sutter posted:Lets talk repair work. Who will do it? How long is the warranty good for? Will we be able to buy parts and do the repair work ourselves?
@John Pignatelli JR. posted:That is the sixty four thousand dolor question.
A small issue. Guessing they have a plan. Do any TV's have a warranty after 30 or 60 days? Staples wouldn't even exchange an unused defective stapler of theirs received as a gift because we didn't have the receipt.
If this locomotive can be run with Lionel’s universal Lionchief remote I believe that Menards will have a hit on their hands. If this means adding yet another remote system to the hobby well then I’m not as sure.
Would be interesting to know if any of this came from K-Line tooling, can't wait to get mine for the open up !
my order is in and confirmed
@Daniel Bobrovsky posted:Would be interesting to know if any of this came from K-Line tooling, can't wait to get mine for the open up !
The details don't match up with a K-Line F-unit.
@jim sutter posted:Lets talk repair work. Who will do it? How long is the warranty good for? Will we be able to buy parts and do the repair work ourselves?
I'm guessing refund/credit or exchange for defective units. Functioning returned units to be placed in Menards Mystery Boxes.
Rusty
@Dick S posted:It sounds good and is priced right. I hope that they are successful. But, I have 8 assorted Santa Fe F units already. I have 10 Menards structures on the layout. They make great stuff. In any event, I wonder if it is new tooling or a redo of somebody else's.
I suspect old rail king tooling from before proto
@RixTrack posted:I suspect old rail king tooling from before proto
Nope. Not RailKing... The early RailKing F's are short and stubby. (and sorta cute...)
Rusty
Huzzah, Menards!
Well-placed steps into a bigger world:
Locomotive style - check!
Livery - check!
Beta test with real, experienced users -- double extra good check!
I eagerly await the testers' reports, and your response & reaction.
Best of luck in your new venture!
I should have mine tomorrow or Wednesday so I will post my video review on my channel as soon as I can. I'm going to try and cover as much as possible and do some comparisons with my Legacy Santa Fe for sizing purposes.
Pretty excited for this new entry, I think Menards is on the right track (pun intended)
-Matt
