Released today is the newest product from Menards. This is a wood body with opening doors and 4 windows with brake wheels on top. Also has all Metal trucks too
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That is a new car style we haven't seen before. Does it come in any other road names, Bob?
Hopefully, they come out with other road names.
It would have been great to see a close up pic of the trucks. I'll be waiting to see how they work and ride.
@Mark Boyce posted:That is a new car style we haven't seen before. Does it come in any other road names, Bob?
As of now, this is the only roadname.
@RJ Shier posted:Hopefully, they come out with other road names.
It would have been great to see a close up pic of the trucks. I'll be waiting to see how they work and ride.
The trucks are the same ones used on the Longer Menards flatcars and work flawlessly.
@cabinet Bob posted:As of now, this is the only roadname.
That's quite alright, Bob! It is a nice looking car!
@Mark Boyce posted:That is a new car style we haven't seen before.
It has an old car look - like something that would have been used in the late 19th or early 20th century.
It looks good. Menards seems to be getting better and better.
One of my club members pointed out that it looks like an old car body on a newer flat car. It is still a different style.
That is a neat car. Does anyone know if these have a 1:1 prototype? I have been searching on the web for a while now, and the only thing I can find that is close to this is a Bachmann Animated Cattle Car with the heads of cattle bobbing in and out two windows on a side.
That Bachmann Cattle Car may just be the prototype ? !
Very inventive, I really like it and will likely order one. It has that ramshackle, "Frankencar" look that is really unique.
It would look a lot better if it had been done with a 40' flat car.
@PRRMP54 posted:It would look a lot better if it had been done with a 40' flat car.
I agree 40' would have been better. Most stock (cattle) cars were 40' until the 60s. And by then they were probably no longer wood from what I see during a web search.
@CAPPilot posted:That is a neat car. Does anyone know if these have a 1:1 prototype? I have been searching on the web for a while now, and the only thing I can find that is close to this is a Bachmann Animated Cattle Car with the heads of cattle bobbing in and out two windows on a side.
This is close to late 1800s early 1900s narrow gauge stock cars. If you google that you'll come with some pretty close images.
@Farmall-Joe posted:This is close to late 1800s early 1900s narrow gauge stock cars. If you google that you'll come with some pretty close images.
It is the window openings that is different, like what you see on some modified old boxcars. Menards Cattle Car is great and unique and I was just curious what inspired the design.
@CAPPilot posted:I agree 40' would have been better. Most stock (cattle) cars were 40' until the 60s. And by then they were probably no longer wood from what I see during a web search.
What is the scale length of the car ?
Their ad says it is 13.5” long, so that would be a scale 54’.
Where did they ge the design from. I have seen old cattle cars, both standard and narrow gauge. Never seen one like that.
