(10/26/18) New! Multi-Sign/Purpose Building from Menards!

More lighted billboards?

UP freight depot...  sounds good

A lighted sign with 26 inserts.

Side note.....got a cool Menard's catalog today......nice to see it all in color in hand!! 

A large warehouse type building that you can apply any of the signs to.

...finally! An item that references the Grand Canyon Railway.

Matt Kramer posted:

A large warehouse type building that you can apply any of the signs to.

I think so too. Only problem I'll have to buy 4 buildings to put the signs I like on each one! LOL

It would be nice if Menards would bring out a copy of Lionel Fastrack.  Is the patent rights run out on Fastrack?   Menards copies all of the O Gauge Quad Hoppers, etc plus O Gauge Track and there buildings are magnificent -- so --Why not copy Fastrack and bring the prices down.  Just a thought.  I thought one can  copy anything as long as they do not mark the Name of it on there product.  Just a day dreaming thought -- railbear601

They did sell some Fastrack straights in the store in packs of 4 for 19.95 I think. But after Christmas, they were half price. A good deal.

There are (26) different signs. Maybe 25 different buildings since there are (2) Goodyear signs. That would be great.

I think a warehouse / distribution center type building with docks for rail and truck access.

Rusty

I will guarantee  everyone will like this !!!!! Everyone will be be surprised how nice this is ! It's another huge hit ...

Goodyear Blimp with lighted side advertising.

I look forward to these Menard's teaser's and product releases.

AMCDave posted:

VistaDomeScott posted:

Goodyear Blimp with lighted side advertising.

Revell did one........you could make custom signs too!!!!]

Now that was a cool model that I remember from the early to mid '70's.  I think I had two of those blimps.  Can't remember if you needed to slightly twist the front nose to run the 2 C or D battery motor.  From the same era, was it Revell that also made the motorized WWII era model tanks

Love your last comment Bob, in other words it has a nice personality!LOL I agree with the warehouse guesses!

Now there is a tease if I ever heard one!

This trackside accessory  will be...........

Ok, everyone on the forum knows I have been looking for a REA building,  I was going to build one myself but I will wait to see what is introduced to us.

Boston & Maine car shops!?  Oh boy. I better start making some room! 

Freight or warehouse although the junk yard sign throws me off a little.

Its a Coors Light Warehouse! I print the sign! LOL

All those logos remind me of the side of a NASCAR car, so that’s my guess.

With all the stickers it has to be a muti purpose building. I'm in. Tomorrow morning I'll start preparing a spot for it..........Paul

Keystone posted:

I look forward to these Menard's teaser's and product releases.

AMCDave posted:

VistaDomeScott posted:

Goodyear Blimp with lighted side advertising.

Revell did one........you could make custom signs too!!!!]

Now that was a cool model that I remember from the early to mid '70's.  I think I had two of those blimps.  Can't remember if you needed to slightly twist the front nose to run the 2 C or D battery motor.  From the same era, was it Revell that also made the motorized WWII era model tanks

Not to hijack the thread, I have one that still works! I performed some surgery on it two years ago and fixed the rotating mechanism.

Back to the thread. I'm thinking new container cars!

Ken

Im not sure what it is, but judging by these signs, Im buying it!

mike g. posted:

Its a Coors Light Warehouse! I print the sign! LOL

Mike - the eternal optimist.  

railbear601 posted:

It would be nice if Menards would bring out a copy of Lionel Fastrack.  Is the patent rights run out on Fastrack?   Menards copies all of the O Gauge Quad Hoppers, etc plus O Gauge Track and there buildings are magnificent -- so --Why not copy Fastrack and bring the prices down.  Just a thought.  I thought one can  copy anything as long as they do not mark the Name of it on there product.  Just a day dreaming thought -- railbear601

One theory (not officially confirmed by Menards) is that Menards is using old Williams tooling owned by Kader for those quad hoppers as well as the boxcars. It’s true that Williams Reproductions copied those models decades ago based on Lionel designs, but then added its own unique elements, making them clearly identifiable. More than likely, the only costs for Menards is paying for the use of this tooling and the creation of the unique paint masks for the fresh schemes it has commissioned.

FasTrack is certainly patented, but the patent must be close to expiring. Maybe by 2020. However, that’s not the issue. Anyone wishing to make a FasTrack copy would have to create new injection-molding tooling, a costly venture. Tooling up from scratch to significantly undercut the competition is a risky approach. Menards didn’t become successful by making those types of decisions.

And, IT'S LIVE!

Introducing the New Multi-Sign/Purpose Building!

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The basics: This is a fully assembled and decorated operating accessory. The building has the standard side-of-the-wall power plug as well as a pigtail plug for feeding power from beneath the tabletop. Scenery details include turf, bushes, two workers and Jack the German Shepherd. Exterior lighting is provided by 33 LEDs. Twenty-six decals are included for you to name the business. The base is approximately 16 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches deep.

For illumination the structure requires a Menards 4.5 volt power supply, Menards SKU 279-4061, 279-4062, or 279-4050.

Why you need this: Drive through any industrial park and you’ll find a variety of businesses from metal fabricators, injection-plastic shops, aluminum rolling companies, and machine shops. The buildings may be new, but most are probably on their second, third or fourth proprietor. Few look like a tidy little shoebox, and what their business is may often be a mystery. The Multi-Sign/Purpose Building fits right into this scene because it is ready to become be any business that you need on your layout.

The building is designed with brown corrugated steel sides and a gray corrugated steel roof. There are eight windows (five large and three small). Six bushes and added turf accent the front and side of the property. Office entry is through a double-wide door. Two workers are chatting out front. You’ll find a recessed truck loading dock with a gravel surface drive. Up behind the loading dock are two warehouse doors.

Some of the add-on detailing include an electrical power box on the side of the office and assorted warning signs placed around the structure. An exhaust stack rises up from the rear of the office, and two heating ducts come up and over into the elevated rear section.

The back of the structure is dual purposed: You can remove an insert and use it as a train siding or run-through, or just leave it in place and consider it a warehouse.

A bonus point for this structure is “naming rights.” Above the office is a removable red label over which you affix one of the many included, or you can make your own. The 26 stickers included have 14 railroads (contemporary and classic), five businesses like Menards and Wally’s Auto Salvage; six national brands like Pennzoil and Sherwin Williams; and “U.S. Logistics Center Army” to help accommodate your military trains.

A great power option is you can use the plug-in on the side of the structure, or the pigtail plug that allows you an invisible power link from beneath the table.

This is a distinctive building that is almost universal in scope as a trackside business, and looks right at home on a 1950s layout or one modeling today’s railroading.

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Looks nice but not worth $100.00 plus shipping and handling  to me.  The 11% rebate is useless to me.

Mark, what would be slick, and I have no idea if you have the capability, would be to have a 3D image that you can scroll around on screen.  I've seen this on websites, but I don't know how difficult it is to do.  It would be great for buildings.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Mark, what would be slick, and I have no idea if you have the capability, would be to have a 3D image that you can scroll around on screen.  I've seen this on websites, but I don't know how difficult it is to do.  It would be great for buildings.

I love that idea!

I do know we are capable of using GIF files that rotate around the building. It may be a little more primitive than a 3D image but it would accomplish about the same thing. At that point, it's just a matter of taking a bunch of photos and stitching them together.

Thanks, Gunrunnerjohn!

-Mark the Menards Train Guy

Awesome looking building that’s perfect for the siding of a yard.

Rather than complain about the rebate, I’ll gladly wait for a freebie in the future.

Keep up the great work Mark and Menards!

Before continuous operation was developed for Poly Styrene and product fed continuously through die head, water cooler and pelletizer to make the product most used by injection molders, pellets.

Batch making Poly Styrene in reactors, the standard way of producing Poly Styrene, ended the product being beads, used by some for especially those make foam products. But many needed pellets, rather then beads. This lead to many small companies popping up and turning beads into pellets.

These small companies that had hopper cars of beads come in, beads fed to extruders, many times 3 or more and produced the needed pellets used by many injecting mold companies. Believe it or not, I seen an almost exact structure like this building, with covered roofed siding enclosure as you show for hopper car in Ohio. I was involved many times with helping these small companies start up their extruders and pelletizers to produce pellets, and many were old structures like this.

Great job and I can see one on my layout.

Would it be fair to say that anyone with a color printer and a reasonable degree of computer savvy could make custom signs for this building?

Awesome! Thanks Mark and the Menards gang for bringing us cool stuff!

Very nice looking building. Most layouts, that I have seen could use a couple of these buildings.

Well I am broke now so I guess I will have to wait til the next sale. Between the muffin man sale, today's Stout Auction and my Charlie Ro tanker pre-orders, I t will have to be a while. I hope that the building doesn't sell out like the cabinet factory.

OK, I see a Brewery here. It's got that Industrial vibe of a repurposed structure with a new lease on life!

This is a really nice looking building Mark! Keep up the great work.

Ken