(10/03/19) New Train Cars from Menards!

The V. and O box car and the two new gondolas are great.

And a free Santa Fe box truck with every  car ordered !!

I like the green Menards boxcar plus the free AT&SF box truck. heck of a deal for $20.

Oh goody, another free box truck! Lol the new rolling stock look great!

Looking great!  I’m going to have to let grandpa know about these!

Is the face on the Menards car anyone in particular at Menards?  Nice new ideas!

Virginian & Ohio is great!  Unique rolling stock.

cabinet Bob posted:

And a free Santa Fe box truck with every  car ordered !!

Yeah way to new as I model between the mid 50's to mid 70's 

VistaDomeScott posted:

Is the face on the Menards car anyone in particular at Menards?

 

 

It's a caricature of Ray Szmanda, the deceased TV spokesman for Menards.

Rusty

The SOO LINE gondola is interesting.

Now, I am getting the V&O box.  Remember the articles about it in RMC in the 1970's

Need a Jack's dog food closed hopper.

I think they look great and Heck who cant use another Santa Fe box truck! I love how Menards keeps coming up with new ideas! Keep up the great work Mark, Dad and Menards!

All four look great to me! Especially the V&O; somehow I was not familiar with that livery--a nice choice for what is probably an underrepresented road.

...and so now I've been educated! A fun choice for a fictional road. I never knew about it until now! very cool.

Rusty Traque posted:

VistaDomeScott posted:

Is the face on the Menards car anyone in particular at Menards?

 

 

It's a caricature of Ray Szmanda, the deceased TV spokesman for Menards.

Rusty

Very cool!   Being a newer customer of Menards in new regions for them, I had never seen Ray.  That is an excellent tribute to the man, I always appreciate such efforts to honor such people in an organization!  I just watched a few of Ray's Menards ads on YouTube.  Nice tribute Menards.  Nice collectable car!

The V&O was a model railroad noted for early use of operations.  This is the first time I have seen an O model box of it.  The blue on the boxcar could be a little light, but V&O blue was lighter than Conrail's.

Here's the last of this batch of boxcars and gondolas. Enjoy!

Shop Boxcars>

Pennsylvania Boxcar – Yellow (279-5331, 5332)

Southern Pacific Boxcar – Burgundy (279-5339, 5340)

Shop Gondolas >

CSX Gondola (279-5247, 5248)

US Navy Gondola (279-5251, 5252)

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Now, I am getting the V&O box.  Remember the articles about it in RMC in the 1970's

Need a Jack's dog food closed hopper.

Got the V&O ad ATSF items today.

I see an interesting paint job on the V&O.  Hand steps and top roof walk are painted in a way they seem to be attached parts, but are not.  Reminds me of how Marx painted tinplated railcars and buidings to give a 3D look.  And unless the V&OHS (There was such an organization at one time.) has a paint chip, hard to tell if the blue is right.  But this is a 3R model of a car from a model railroad.

Plan to take it Saturday to run on Houston Tinplate layout.

Now the box truck.  The model looks big, even for scale highway trucks.  Looks big enough to put the V&O layout in it.  Are the trucks a 1/43 model?

falconservice posted:

The SOO LINE gondola is interesting.

Yep. Always like that SOO color scheme.

Being an SP fan, I ordered the boxcar.  Now some SP Overnites in black or silver would be nice.....

Don't forget this one..

Too bad the box truck is not the same road name as the car you ordered.