Menards Newest Offerings....pictures

Great looking cars, Menards.

Now a discounted 4-pack of just the weathered cars and a discounted "mix n' match" 4-pack of the others would be a great idea !!

I like your idea Richie C.

All those new boxcars and not a single Spokane Portland & Seattle offering. Maybe next year.

Glad to see that weathering, as a concept, has invaded the near-toy end of 3RO. I won't be buying any of these cars (for various reasons), but the weathering - which I applaud as an effort - is poorly done. I see this every so often: weathering as a random event with no cause-and-effect in evidence. Just stuff thrown at the wall.

RR equipment weathers in certain ways and in certain patterns relative to the conditions and use of the equipment. There are indeed some odd events that dirty up a car or loco in a non-typical way, but mostly "stuff" drips down from above according to the laws of gravity, and physics in general, and "stuff" gets splashed up from the roadbed according to the same laws. It's really kind of predictable. It varies with service and geography. What cars carry - the lading - can play a big role (cement hoppers are always a good example of that). These weathered cars seem to have clean wheels and trucks - typically the first place that gets dirty.

Improvement would not take much.

Thanks dad for the pics. A very nice selection of box cars. Paul 2

I must say, these are very colorful  boxcars and will go great on any layout.

I like the weathered cars, yet I wonder how they would look with my non-weathered rolling stock. Will have to try to picture that when I next run trains.

Any chance those yellow Santa Fe boxcars will be offered without the weathering?

They look nice.  Thanks for posting.  The silver trucks do stand out nicely.  Nick T. 

There is a strange error in the Interior Length Measurement on all of these boxcars. Somebody put 10'-8" instead of 40'-8". 

Andrew

As always great job Menard's!! Don't worry about the "rivet counters" and I am sure you don't!!! Your products continue to fill a void in the O gauge world. I don't remember anything said about your products being scale and/or real world weathering. The new Santa Fe Warbonnet boxcar will be added to my fleet, can never go wrong with anything in the Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme. Keep up the good work!!

Jeff

SouthernMike posted:

Any chance those yellow Santa Fe boxcars will be offered without the weathering?

The  Yellow Santa Fe has been produced without the weathering a while back.

Loving the PRR  caboose

Wow, a Rio Grande car!  The mountain road is getting some respect!

Nice stuff!  I will agree with a couple of the comments above about the "weathered" items.   I would think that you would either want EVERYTHING you have weathered (in a consistent way) or just not have it at all.  

I assume that during a typical railroad company's existence, it had to periodically replace outmoded, outdated or broken-down freight cars with new ones that then got mixed into a consist with well-weathered cars, so that a mix of new and weathered cars in one consist was fairly typical.

Although it might not look right to the eye, wouldn't that mix of old and new be fairly prototypical ?

Question:  Why is all of the Menards Cars you are showing on FASTRACK when Menards sells and promotes there own Tubular Track?  Sincerely yours -- railbear601

CABINET BOB,

I appreciate you taking pictures of all of the items Menard's offers for sale. Please continue to do so.

Menards did not post the pics. Cabinet Bob did. He more then likely had some laying around. It actually shows how good those cars look on fasttrack........Paul 2