Love to see more building flats made. Not so much front of the buildings but maybe with just train loading and unloading docks or even some with a covered train shed. also made so you could put more then one side by side to make longer buildings. also some older style buildings from the early 1900's. ......Paul 2

Blast furnace! Steel mill!

A 1970s era Amtrak station.   Hammond IN, Canton, OH are examples of the type.

Buffalo NY Depew one example as in this link:

http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/buffalo_depew.htm

M&Ms factory.  I know you did the building flat for M&Ms.

Neal Jeter

Wonder Bread, Hostess Cake Plant with a smoke unit in the stack so you can use Mega Steam Baking Bread scented smoke fluid

I would love to see a Pillsbury manufacturing plant.

Margaritaville restaurant with Jimmy Buffett sign.

I definitely second Paul’s suggestions. I’d also like to see more industries with flat backs like grain silos or coal/ore mines. An older style freight building/depot would be nice too.

As far as non-train related buildings, I’d like to see: a city hall, a gazebo/city park, a drive in theater with concession stands, and a 1950’s highway motel.

I would have also said a church, but you beat me to it with a nice offering!

I would second the drive in theater with concession stands. 

I’d like a enhanced selection of residential houses...farm homes, two story city houses, older 1920 vintage.

Domino Sugar

A Wisconsin cheese factory (think Mullins Cheese), a paper mill, a Wisconsin/Minnesota supper club, The Brat Stop, another version of the sauerkraut factory (mine didn't work), a country tavern, a tourist gift shop (Dells, Cherryland, etc. signage) and the National Railroad museum.  These all have buildings right in your back yard to model .

I would love to see a hillside coal mine

Or even some small old west buildings that could be used for a kid's layout:

Ebinger bakery plant

Bohack Super market

Johns Bargain Store

Prince, WV passenger station.

Still being used by Amtrak.

Scott Smith

I'll take a Bohack and a White Castle !

Any of these skyscrapers (as flats) but in a more professional version with the great lighting and details that Menards is so good at...

Water treatment plant

When you make the Wonder/Hostess/ Interstate Bakeries Corporation factory be sure to make some "Happy Birthday America" Hoppers as well!  Some plain Wonder/ Hostess hoppers would be cool as well.  If you can only do one, go for the bicentennial.   

Back to buildings I would love a vintage Stuckey's & a generic looking old school gas station that came with different brands you could put on it.   While I am dreaming I would love for it to either come with pumps from multiple eras or you guys could sell the pumps separately.  I know the 50's  "transition era" is popular.  I would like a building generic enough that it wouldn't look out of place with 50's style logos and pumps, yet would also look ok with 70's-80's era mechanical pumps.    I think Walther's used to have something like this (it did not come with any logos).  Many 50's and 60's gas station building hung on until the 80's or later.  I suspect a few are still in use.

Mark,

I also think that a drive-in movie theater would be great.

A drive-in restaurant like a Sonic or classic style from the 50’s would also be nice to have as well.

Both are great ways to display everyone’s die cast cars.

Thanks for all that you’re doing for the hobby.

Chris

To focus in on a part of the above post.

ACFX 56670 in the Bicentennial scheme was leased to HOSTESS / WONDER BREAD. It was a 5250 Cubic Foot Capacity, ACF CENTER FLOW 4-bay covered hopper.

K-Line once had that type of ACF CENTER FLOW, 5250 Cu. Ft., 4-bay covered hoppers produced in Aluminum in O scale.

MENARDS needs to find a way to produce them again in Plastic or Aluminum, then apply that HOSTESS scheme plus the WISCONSIN CENTRAL scheme.

Andrew

Falcon Service

A Howard Johnson Resturant. A icing station were blocks of ice are loaded into refrigator cars.

A Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, you have licensed other food emporiums so maybe a KK would be possible.

A long icing platform with an operating conveyor belt that moves numerous blocks of ice.

Several remotely controlled figures of men with large poles push the ice from the conveyor belt into the refrigerator cars through the roof hatches or the open doors.

Andrew

I would like to see an extension to your restaurant line. Maybe McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, etc. This of course is for a more modern layout and I know there are licensing issues but it's been done in other scales. Also, maybe an apartment building that would fit nicely on most layouts.

Dave

A track side warehouse flat with loading dock the correct height for boxcars.  Or similar industry structure (furniture, etc.).

THE DOMINO SUGAR BUILDING - EPIC!!!!!!!!!

More building flats like the first one you did.  

Ben;

You’re killing me - a Bohack to go along with your next beer cars and Ebingers. If they make an Ebinger’s store as opposed to the factory, they would have to include a couple of women in white smocks wearing hair nets... and those green boxes!!! I can taste the crumb cake and iced kringles!!! I’d be definitely in for one of each - preferably as flats, I think.

Steak n Shake (50's-70's) Dog n Sud's drive in.

Rusty

Walthers Steel Mill series has been HUGELY successful.  I suggest doing a series of O Scale flats of the FORD River Rouge complex.  Not only could you do different sides of the plant which included multiple assembly buildings, a glass plant, a steel mill all types of sub steel mfg components an iconic Ford Water tower but all the tangential products Menards could do.  There is / was a huge freighter dock in the middle of the plant to off load ore, coal, sand.  So Lake Freighters could go with line, tugs, so many additional smalls.  Cranes, gantrys conveyers, unlimited industrial options.  Ford Rouge had it all.

DETROIT EDISON CONNOR AVE POWER PLANT - EAST SIDE OF DETROIT - also known as the seven sisters.