They’re not. The core business of Menards is home improvement and there’s no real incentive for the company to go after a market that’s orders of magnitude smaller than their core market. It makes absolutely no business sense.
Andre
Right now only one structure interests me. That’s the saurkraut factory. Rip the signage off, dirty up the structure and a generous dose of dull coat, it’d make a pretty good salting/brining statation for one of the many such stations along my line.
All the rest are…uninteresting to my mind.
Hey, if they can figure out how to get containers down to, say, $5 a box for what is effectively a small rectangle of plastic, I’ll buy them from anyone. Even Stalin, to paraphrase Churchill.
They were 5.00 a box in the late 80’s, early 90’s…bought enough to fill 5, 5 pack double stack well cars and then some…20’s, 40’s and 48’s. Even have some American President Lines, with the Red Big Eagle on the side…You don’t see those anymore…pulled a lot of those cans in real life, 48’s.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
For the money and the light effects, it looks great and works for my purpose.
Neal
I would move it up over the 1st car so you have “room to roll”, ie you can push two loaded cars in then pull them out as they are “unloaded”. Putting the industry at the end of the siding requires extra switching moves to swap the empty for the loaded car.
Its not bad, but for $65(-20% discount coupon in the 2017 Walthers catalog) I could have Metro Power and Light, a comparable structure. Which I could build with lights for less than the $5 difference in cost.
Actually I think I could make a decent looking power plant out of the Recovery Boiler House kit ($60-20%).
The question there is the time to construct worth saving the cost difference. In my case (hypothetical, since neither of these buildings work for my late 1948/1949 era proto freelance terminal switching layout), I would have the walthers kit(s) over the Menards ready to drop on layout product, simply because I design the building to fit the layout easier, vice opposite. Also I dont particularly care for the wire coming out the back or the switch. They ought to include a small structure or sliding panel(maybe a door of some sort) to cover that.