Menards Power and Light building

Troy,

That looks awesome! Great use of the Korber kit and rotary tipple. The Menards building made a very nice addition. 

Ya know, and this is a REAL shot in the dark, I wish I could get a hold of two of the generators that are in the Menards power and light building by themselves.  I would open up one end of the Kolber power and light building and install them in there so you could see them. Now that would be cool...............Of course I could just buy two power and light buildings and remove the generators but that would cost way too much.....

Your Pacific Power building is awesome!  Is that scratchbuilt or a kit or...?

Korber Kit.  Bought on e-bay pre-assembled

Nice job Troy. Good use of the real estate. Plus you incorporated a lot of buildings into something that blend well together.............Paul

Troy, beautiful job blending things together! Love it and this forum! You guys give me so many ideas, I need a bigger head! LOL

Ask Mark the Menards guy if he has any pull to get you 2 generators!

That's why I am posting on here.  Do not know a more specific way to contact him directly.  Hopfully he will read this.  Any ideas on how to contact him ?

Don't worry, Mark Reads everything posted about Menards products on here. If he doesn't people like Cabinet Bob, will let him know. But most of the time Mark is on it. Might be till Monday.

Troy Towery posted:

Ya know, and this is a REAL shot in the dark, I wish I could get a hold of two of the generators that are in the Menards power and light building by themselves.  I would open up one end of the Kolber power and light building and install them in there so you could see them. Now that would be cool...............Of course I could just buy two power and light buildings and remove the generators but that would cost way too much.....

Troy,

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the generators by themselves. I know a few other people have been looking for them also. Perhaps this is something we should consider for the future. Do you guys think there is a big enough market out there?

-Mark the Menards Train Guy

I think being able to buy individual items like this would be great. Certain items would possibly sell like hot cakes........Paul

Perhaps offering them as a load on a flat car or something like that.  Now that I am bending your ear, and as I have suggested on this forum before,  Menards should offer a large weathered coal mine tipple/building to pull all those new coal hoppers thru.  Something along the size of the recent American power and light building.........

Mark, I would be in for a few of the generators and use a few of my zillion free Kubota flats, take the tractors off and make my own flatcar loads, or you are welcome to do it for us! LOL

Looking real good, Troy!

Troy Towery posted:

Perhaps offering them as a load on a flat car or something like that.  Now that I am bending your ear, and as I have suggested on this forum before,  Menards should offer a large weathered coal mine tipple/building to pull all those new coal hoppers thru.  Something along the size of the recent American power and light building.........

Mark,

Including this generator as a flat car load is a great idea.  I already had a Menards Power & Light, but got a second as the building in Mystery Box.  I decided to convert the building to a service garage and removed the generator set to adapt as a cargo load for a  Chicago & Northwestern 14" flat car.  I think it will look great.
 

COOL complex!!

norscot has one cat 3516b package generator set , i have one they are 1/25 scale ,on ebay and google they average about 70-118 dollars .they are diecast with great detail , i bought 2 kober sub stations which i intend to kit bash together ,and put the generator in . these generators in the real world are portable , but put the 1/25 scale generator in  a kober power station t gives it the illusion of a full sized power plant generator in the kober buildings techman  

Excellent combination of structures, accessories and rolling stock to create a fantastic power generating facility Troy!

Mark, I was looking for a couple of generators like that but the only ones I could find were die cast models in the $80-100 range.  I had to settle for some "G" scale generators, like the ones Lionel used as loads on some flat cars.  Your generators would be much more impressive and realistic in place of these "G" scale generators.

Less than $100 seems reasonable to me, especially when there are Caterpillar 1:25 diesel generators that cost me over $150, even with an employee discount, with retail prices closer to $300.

These are just my opinion.

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

Those CAT diecasts are very nice but a little pricey.  And the 1/25 scale probably would look quite right on O scale.  Would rather have a couple or so of the Menards plastic ones to place inside the Korber power station, cut away one end of the building so you can see in.  Also light inside the building, which would cast a silhouette of the generators against the diffused windows..........I sure a couple of Menards generators wouldn't be nearly as costly as one of the CAT diecasts.

Mark the Menards guy. Coach Joe ask about transformers. I would assume with two runs of the power plant there had to be the possibility of damage ones beyond being able to sell them. What if they were stripped and things like the transformers were put into a grab bag of sorts, like first come first served for sale...................Paul

Got to see this in person for this year's holiday sale.  Really nice.