ANNOUNCING...MENARDS...NEW FORUM SPONSOR!

Welcome. Nice products.

I think that's fantastic. I've bought quite a number of items from them.

Welcome to the forum and thank you for sponsoring it.

Menard's, welcome and thank you for your sponsorship here.  Regrettably, you aren't close to the Atlanta area so I don't get to visit your stores to take advantage of your O gauge offerings in person as many on the forum do.

Welcome to the forum MENARDS, and thanks for sponsoring this for us.

Also, great job Alan.

Great news!  While one is not local to my TX home, we travel to Kansas regularly and always stop in the Salina store.

WELCOME ABOARD, JOHN!

Menards is a large REGIONAL chain so not everyone here will have a local menards store to visit. However, they have an excellent web site where products can be ordered on line. Click on their ad and you'll go right to their O gauge products page.

Welcome Menards!

 franktrain

I have purchased a few of their flatcars and boxcars along with a couple buildings. Always good to have additional O Gauge suppliers in the hobby.

Rich,

Alan Arnold is kicking butt...that man deserves a raise!  

Oh yeah! to tie in with Spence and Richs' comments.....welcome Menards!

  Never heard of them until a few years ago I was taking my elderly uncle to a Menards near Chicago.   His mistake was he showed me the trains for sale............

   I probably took too long looking but even he was starting to enjoy the offerings

Can you purchase all of the O gauge items on line?

I remember trying to make a purchase and seeing a message that you could only purchase the item in the store.

Doesn't do me any good.

But thanks for being a forum sponsor!

Bill

I know you can order from online, but I like to wait for Nov 1, when our local Menards sets up several shelves of goodies and at reasonable prices.  That way I can look/see up close cars and buildings.  I have bought Menards/Woodland Scenic buildings but either position them or paint over Menards references to make them generic, though I have nothing against Menards, as their merchandise is top line (I think, your mileage may vary).

Menards   - Welcome to the Forum and becoming a sponsor of the best Model/toy train forum anywhere.  I like what I've seen of your well priced products, but the shipping to CANADA puts them out of my price range.

I hope someday I can visit a store and purchase from you there.

All the best here and to your future business.  I have read nothing but good things about your firm.

I tried searching for trains on their web site and came up with dusters and cleaners.  They certainly do know my layout's needs, but if they carry trains, they keep them well-hidden.

Well Robert....I don't know how you searched but even if you don't use the banner link or index link here on the forum, it was easy to find "trains" on their website.  All I did is Google "Menards", clicked on the link and then typed in "trains" in their search box at the home page...viola'...went directly to the trains!...

Alan

Glad to see the Menard's has become "part of the family".  They've been dabbling in 3rail trains stuff for several years and I know that at least several of the family are fellow train guys.  Not related, but perhaps most of us are aware that Paul Menard is prominent in NASCAR's Sprint Cup stock car series and Lionel is involved in that sport through it's stock car model series.

Some of their new train stuff has really been nice and priced reasonably, too.

Paul Fischer

Great to see Menards in the mix now.  Thank you!

Alan you are underpaid sir....

Well done Alan! You've landed the big one.   While I don't buy trains from Menards, about 25% of my house and 90% of my layout were purchased from them.

Alan, I see the issue.  I went to www.menards.com and entered "trains" in the search box.  But then there immediately popped up a window with the listing "O gauge train stuff" in it, and I clicked on that.  If I closed the window and then clicked on the search button after the box in which I had entered trains, the trains came up.  Thanks.

You're doing quite well at your job.  Congrats.