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Like to see a diner. I am not sure how Menards can incorporate Menards name into Diner since all the Menards buildings are industrial or agriculture themed, but certainly all those Menards-Ville people have to eat somewhere so why not a dinner?  Maybe styled after those silvery railroad shaped coach diners.

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falconservice posted:

What type of DINER?

Brick building?

Steel structure?

Two-story clapboard covered building?

Large windows with visible figures on seats in booths and sitting on stools at counters?

Andrew

This is what I had in mind, especially since they look "railroady" and would fit in anywhere, while a brick and mortar would be lost among all the other layout structures (of course all you scratchbuilders would already have modified something like below, but for us less talented......)

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I always associate "diner' with the urban northeast.  (I did have breakfast at one near the Ted Maurer auction site some years ago, and I see what I think are some west of York on U.S. 30)  On my first trips to central Pa., and then up into New England, I was surprised by the lack of fast food restaurants that I had lived off of in school in the midwest since the middle 1950's.   (no problem in central Pa. now)  As for my modeled steam era, when I was a kid, we rarely ate out (boy, has THAT changed) except city shopping where we ate at Woolworth's lunch counter, or a push your tray, make a selection, "Blue Boar" cafeteria.  (there were infrequent stops at a White Castle). Flyer, Lionel, and MTH (I think) have offered "diners".   I remember seeing nothing like them in my area, although I have heard there once was one made from a McKeen car in the Toledo area.  Menards has offered a barn, so a stockyards, or more likely, a packing plant, at the other end of the food chain, would be interesting here.

With my layout nearing completion, I find that i really don't have anymore room for buildings like a diner.  Actually I have two diners on the layout already, one an older K-Line diner with lighting, the other one of those telephones that you lifted off part of the roof and that was the phone set.  Nice details inside and out. 

What I'd like to see are more RR related buildings.   Factory buildings, warehouses, Railroad service buildings.  the sour kraut factory was a real winner.  Other small, well detailed factories that "require" service by rail, are what are most needed.  My downtown and residential areas are completely filled up.

Paul Fischer

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