Here's your first hint. Have a great Labor Day!
Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy
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The speculation will be interesting with this one.
Could Christmas be coming very early from Mark and Menards this year in the form of a small steam engine.. ...........Paul 2
Georgetown Loop Railroad engine house.
Jigsaw puzzle! What did I win?
Low-cost On30 track!! 
Georgetown Loop Trestle Set?? Silver Mine???
Finally an affordable Menards engine !
I’m not really sure but Mark did say “O Scale”.
Open excursion cars would be awesome. I would buy a case of them.
Narrow gauge steamer. Steam engines need water, fuel and sand. A water, coal or sand tower. Based on the Georgetown Loop
A caboose.
I would be happy with a series of stock cars. Use the same frames as your box cars. Williams, KMT and Franks has the same molds.
Nobody's paying any attention to the track. Maybe some switches to go with Menard's track?
Chuck
Georgetown has two depots, Devil's Gate and Silver Plume and also a Shay from Westside Lumber.
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Scale lumber or logging cars.
Think mountains....
I think it might be a set of scale ballast and roadside rocks.
Keeping my fingers crossed: An affordable conventional 4-6-2 steam locomotive in a few different livery styles and names.
@dk122trains posted:Scale lumber or logging cars.
I think you are right Don.
Logging cars.
A new box truck and a box of trees with every purchase of 19.99 or more! Final answer!LOL
Looks like prints to hang on the wall!
I'm not going to speculate on the next Menards release. I still enjoy surprises. When Mark, the Menards train guy, spills the beans, you can bet it will become OGR Front Page News before the "ink" dries!
Did I say beans? OK, I'm going to have some fun afterall. How about a Pork & Beans box car...but which company? Campbells, Stokley...???
I really hope it is disconnect log cars!!
Bryce
I have been hoping for a Menards engine. I never thought about steam. I would be fine with that.
As far as engines, can you put a F body on the RMT Bang frame?
I don't think anyone is using that tooling.
Don't get me wrong, a run of Alco switchers would be fine.
We don't ask for much, do we Mark? 
Seriously, a Menards engine would be a game changer.
You could put a set under the three for less than $300ish?
Could get a lot of new people in the hobby.
No pressure Mark, just sayin'.
Because Mark titled this thread as an "O Scale" release instead of "O Gauge", I'm going to predict that it's a building of some sort. Maybe a lumber mill or some trees. If the title of the thread was "O gauge", I'd assume it would've been rolling stock instead.
I don't ever think they'll make an engine, not enough profit margin on it versus rolling stock & buildings. Plus parts & service support would be also be a drag on the bottom line of the their train business.
How about a sawmill
@Garfield posted:I have been hoping for a Menards engine. I never thought about steam. I would be fine with that.
As far as engines, can you put a F body on the RMT Bang frame?
I don't think anyone is using that tooling.
Don't get me wrong, a run of Alco switchers would be fine.
We don't ask for much, do we Mark?
Seriously, a Menards engine would be a game changer.
You could put a set under the three for less than $300ish?
Could get a lot of new people in the hobby.
No pressure Mark, just sayin'.
F body on RMT loco frame?: Yes, here is the Beef.
I have a set, runs well, cute, small.
Ken-Oscale, Right On! RMT (www.readymadetoys.com) is a New Jersey based company that offers a product line of trains compatable with the ones Menards produces. Their model of the revised Marx Alco Diesel switcher, for example, has been completely retooled as well as the onetime KMT caboose. Their prices are reasonable and affordable in Century 21 when compared to other well known traditional manufactures.
I don't intend to be critical of the others, including the "Small Guys" who produce excellent rivet counting full scale models. Indeed, there is a market for all the manufacture of toy and model trains today to serve the tinplate operators to their rivet counting counterparts. Afterall, isn't this what the World's Greatest Hobby is all about? What OGR has done and continues to do, is bring operator and collector alike, together as a Family! As in every family, be it Mom and Dad, Little Billy and Sister Sally, each member of the family has their very own opinion. The same holds true within the wonderful OGR Family as well.
Many O gaugers who maintain an indoor layout also enjoy running large scale trains in the great ourdoors in fair weather. This is what makes OGR railroaders unique, because each one can feel free to share his or her skills and abilities, happiness or anger about any product, without fear of being "Put Down" by fellow members.
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Godspeed everyone and Please Pray for Peace
Ah, I thought the frame of the Bang (the old Marx Alco switcher) was longer.
I think the Beef is on the Beep frame.
I mentioned the Bang frame because I thought that tooling would be available.
Even if they weren't scale length I think an F that had 2 4 wheel trucks that pivoted would be more successful than the Beef was. Basically a F3 that would be about the size of a postwar FA.
Just thinking out loud, not like Mark needs my help
Does make me wonder if the K Line MP15 tooling will ever show up again. That was a neat idea, put a scale sized small switcher in starter sets. I don't know how much demand there would be for something like that now that switchers are not as comon on class 1's.
@SIRT posted:
Come to think of it they have the means to make some awesome backdrops.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has looked through the posters at Hobby Lobby or elsewhere and tried to figure out how to use them as a backdrop. If some posters were printed that were designed to be a backdrop, that would be amazing.
Trees!
The night they drove Ol' Dixie down???
A Cripple Creek lumber steam engine with logging cars (maybe sold separately)
Florence and Cripple Creek railroad. (the Gold Line ) to the gold camps in Colorado.
People!
