Menards Trains? | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

Mike W.OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

I have seen them mentioned on here before but never really paid attention. I see diecast O Gauge rolling stock for $19.95. Where are they getting the tooling? Is it Kusan/Marx? And how can they offer them so cheap...when they are a profit making retailer?

9/20/1411:28 PM

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RailRideOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Trucks are diecast. Frames are sheet metal, bodies are plastic. Size is traditional, or slightly larger if you're nit-pickly about roof heights being all the same.

(Tip:the real thing isn't).

The molds are Williams by Bachmann, the giveaway is the fishbelly girder/air tank casting under the middle.

Road numbers are unique to each and every model. Somehow part of the road number is printed in a method that allows really easy changes from model to model.

---PCJ

9/21/1412:17 AM

Mike W.OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

So Bachmann makes these for them? I thought the boxcar looked to be Kusan...the rib that the sliding door ends at is a giveaway as well.

Bill TOGR Forum Member

I have 2 of their boxcars, very nice for the super low price.

Picture comparison of Menards NP and a Williams AT&SF, they are almost identical.

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