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Post by seayakbill on Jun 30, 2024 8:13:34 GMT
Heck of a bargain for what Menards is selling them for. I was quite surprised how large they are and detailed for the price. Metal trucks and couplers that seem to be a new version for Menards freight cars. No issues passing through Ross and Gargraves switches. The body style is quite different from stock cars produced by the other manufactures. Need to find some cows to load em up. I wonder if the manufacture developed the tooling or did they acquire the tooling that has been in storage somewhere. Bill     |
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jun 30, 2024 17:42:22 GMT
I just received two of them. I was also surprised at the size but I’m really ally happy with them.
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Post by david1 on Jun 30, 2024 17:56:51 GMT
I agree with Bill, they roll nice, no wobble, detailed very nicely. Just a great car.
Dave
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Post by Adam on Jun 30, 2024 18:01:41 GMT
They sure look good. I am glad to hear that the quality matches.
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jul 16, 2024 21:55:26 GMT
Here’s a vid of my Menards stock cars. I just ordered a spark arrester for the 4-4-0 so it should be less smoky once it’s installed.
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Post by Country Joe on Jul 16, 2024 22:03:18 GMT
The stock cars look really good with the General, Joe.
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jul 16, 2024 22:08:50 GMT
It really does. I had to take the trolly bridge down because the stock cars are larger but it’s worth it.
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Post by Adam on Jul 16, 2024 22:42:06 GMT
Perfect match to the General. Menards is really on a hot streak lately.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 17, 2024 13:06:39 GMT
Heck of a bargain for what Menards is selling them for. I was quite surprised how large they are and detailed for the price. Metal trucks and couplers that seem to be a new version for Menards freight cars. No issues passing through Ross and Gargraves switches. The body style is quite different from stock cars produced by the other manufactures. Need to find some cows to load em up. I wonder if the manufacture developed the tooling or did they acquire the tooling that has been in storage somewhere. Bill
I think that this must be entirely new tooling as I have never seen anything in the same design as well as size. Computer-assisted design would allow for creating these from scratch at least in plastic.
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Post by madockawando on Jul 17, 2024 13:10:26 GMT
I just received two of them. I was also surprised at the size but I’m really ally happy with them. In what way, were they too small or larger than what you expected?
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jul 17, 2024 14:08:57 GMT
I just received two of them. I was also surprised at the size but I’m really ally happy with them. In what way, were they too small or larger than what you expected? They were just a little larger than I had expected for my layout. The sides of the cars were hitting the sides of both overpasses. I just have to reconfigure the overpass but that’s a future project. Other than that I love the look of them with the 4-4-0. |
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Post by JDaddy on Jul 17, 2024 17:04:40 GMT
In true life those cattle cars were probably 34 foot cars. But that's okay they still look very cool. Yes Menards up their rolling stock game when they updated their trucks and couplers.
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Post by josef on Jul 17, 2024 22:08:46 GMT
In the 1870s, typical cattle cars were 28ft. By the 1880s this size increased to 34ft. Then in the 1890s this increased to 36ft.
UP to increase traffic converted a large numbers of 50ft cars to handle and deliver hogs and some cattle to slaughter houses.
In 1929 only one large cattle car was built at a lenght of 81ft.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Jul 17, 2024 22:22:45 GMT
These appeared to be very nice and original based on the Menards site. Your various photos and videos prove it. With the improved trucks/couplers Menards really seems to have tapped into a good place for value minded types
Lucky us.
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