The rest of our candy cars finally arrived! Check out these beauties!
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Nice party bus !
Looks great but it looks like "S" size bus.
I have the Army flat with the bus. Running with my other Army flat cars it looks fine to me.
@Chris Lonero posted:I have the Army flat with the bus. Running with my other Army flat cars it looks fine to me.
have you measured your bus? I have found most have gotten use to 1/43 scale vehicles which are oversized.
@Dave Koehler posted:have you measured your bus? I have found most have gotten use to 1/43 scale vehicles which are oversized.
No. I don't care that much to measure anything. If it looks good to me that's good enough.
Nice bus.
Any chance of it showing up by itself in a Trailways and or Greyhound paint job?
I have and like the Santa Fe Trailways one done earlier.
now the question is...what loco pulls these????mhmmhmmhmm
Kids love the skittles car…they play trains a little more often when there are skittles in it haha
I hope the engine doesn't melt in your mouth, or in your hands, or on your layout.
@H1000 posted:
Hard to find that M&M diesel, though. It came in a set & I think there were relatively few of them sold... especially to satisfy the need for them created by all the MTH & Menards M&M's items since made. Plus, the M&M diesel is on the 027 size & would look small compared to the larger Menards freight cars.
were there ever silver bullet trains manufactured like that on, but without the coors branding? Maybe a different brand, but preferably *no* branding? Love the body and shape, hate the brand.
@RadioRon posted:Hard to find that M&M diesel, though. It came in a set & I think there were relatively few of them sold... especially to satisfy the need for them created by all the MTH & Menards M&M's items since made. Plus, the M&M diesel is on the 027 size & would look small compared to the larger Menards freight cars.
Well at only an inch and a half short of the scale models, I don't think anyone will notice or care. After all, it's candy train and not exactly rivet (or skittle) count worthy.
@PeterB posted:were there ever silver bullet trains manufactured like that on, but without the coors branding? Maybe a different brand, but preferably *no* branding? Love the body and shape, hate the brand.
Nope. If you wanted to rebrand the engine or set, you'd still need permission from Coors to use the likeness of the model. I spoke with MTH years ago at a show and received the distinct impression that they didn't even own the tooling.
@Chris Lonero posted:No. I don't care that much to measure anything. If it looks good to me that's good enough.
Yup. And some folks forget that not everyone runs full scale cars or engines on their layouts. These flatcars aren't full scale, either, so why should the bus be? Obviously here's a big market for this size, given that most folks have smaller layouts.
@H1000 posted:Well at only an inch and a half short of the scale models, I don't think anyone will notice or care. After all, it's candy train and not exactly rivet (or skittle) count worthy.
Oh, I'm no rivet counter either, but there is a significant size difference between that loco and the larger than 6464 Menards boxcars. 
The bus is closer to S scale. I always wanted one of those Flxible buses made by Corgi so when Menards first put out a flat car with that bus 5 or so years ago I bought one just for the bus. I was disappointed how small the bus was compared to other Corgi 1/50 scale busses so I returned the item.
Wonder if the Lionel coal loader could handle Skittles or M&MS. Could be a great repurpose if it could. A candy factory would be a great addition. Corn syrup or liquid chocolate laden tank cars in, hoppers and box cars of candies out.
Terry
Let us know if it can without destroying the candy Good idea though Kids would love it You go first!!
