Menards NS flat with rocket load

Hmmm...  The Saturn-5 looked bigger on TV.

Rusty

would you post the dimensions of the flat car?

COOL! I ordered mine and the Army Helicopter today.

The actual deck is 2 11/16 wide, 13 5/16 long

End of coupler to end of coupler is 14 7/8

  Bill T.

A 1/48 scale Saturn V rocket would be about 7.5 feet long and about 8.25 inches in diameter.  I guess we won't be seeing any scale Saturn V's on O gauge trains.

I really want to get some of the NS flatcars.  But, empty please.

Now that is cool! Could be a minute man missile. My son is going to love one of those. Thanks for posting! 

I think the rocket load is pretty awesome & is a throw back to the rocket loads of the 1950's

Neato!  Can't wait til they produce a Scrapple car.  Or, given their location, Pon Haus.

Gentlemen,   

   Got to admit this looks like it will be an addition to my NASA Train!  Please post the

add to cart web reference you used so I might be able to purchase one immediately!

PCRR/Dave

That's a Saturn V. In O Scale but being the size it is on that flat, it's a 1:48-ish model of a model of a Saturn V model, which would be about 1:30 scale or so...

https://www.menards.com/main/p...-3114688136710865346

Theres the link you requested!

I'm running out of planning time, but I'f I could, I would purchase the entire army train and rocket car, and replace the helicopter with one of those actual flying RC choppers. The kids on our layout would never expect a helicopter to take off from a moving train & circle the room! 

Yep, ya have to use your imagination a bit here. The MTH rocket takes 5 covered hoppers to transport.

    Bill T.

Is the rocket on the menards flat car plastic or diecast?

Regards, 

Frank

Interesting idea. 

I'm not good enough at flying those things to get it out of the way of the car behind it before it would be taken out.    Would need either a very rapid ascent, or some forward component of motion to make it move with the train (without going too far and flying it into the car in front)

If you ever do execute this, a video would be really cool!

-Dave