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How and where do you store engine and rolling stock boxes

General Discussion
#1

I have been told to save all the cartons, boxes and packages that a engine or car comes in from factory, where to you all store them, in attic where it is cold in winter and boiling hot in summer, I have the Shay box and soon a caboose package, these are large and take up a lot of room, need you ideas and methods, thanks Bruce in Southern Ohio

#2

I rent a storage unit. Really.

I don’t know why.

Regards, Greg

#3

So, you’re saying if I have attic space that will work, storage units have mice and I am thinging yours is not climate controled, thanks Bruce

#4

I have a room in my basement and have put up shelves to hold my rolling stock and boxes.

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#5

I store most like this, and on plastic shelve units like to the right boxes are marked as I receive them, stored in the garage and marked as to what went in them so if I sell and have to ship have the original box to do it with!! Regal

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#6

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#7

I only throw away the boxes I am sure to need in the future. :slight_smile:

Actually, since I am way to cheap to pay the shipping to return something for repair, and I never sell anything, I just pitch them. They take up way too much room.

#8

I save boxes for locomotives and anything that is mechanical or possibly collectible (LGB). But everything else gets tossed. The loco boxes are kept just in case I ever have to ship them somewhere for repairs. The boxes are stored in an upstairs closet. While the locos and rolling stock are stored on shelving:

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#9

I just buy or build what I run. So there is no box storage problem. Speaking of problems…:wink:

#10

Ok, thanks for you information, Bruce

#11

It seems like I follow the standard around here. I keep engine boxes to ship off for repair and improvements. Rolling stock gets round filed or shared with box collectors. Years ago, I got chewed out by a guy that wanted some of my old boxes that I offered, but was pissed because I had taken the stuff out of them. Go figure. :wink:

#12

Since my equipment only gets to run when I take it somewhere, I keep the boxes around the cars.

#13

The majority of my cars are scratch-built and I never thought to get a box for them. :wink:

I don’t have any of the boxes my bought cars came in. I think I might have one locomotive box stored in the garage.

#14

Bruce,

I see a whole new hobby for you. Building the boxes your stuff would have come in, if you had bought it.

#15

I keep lokie boxes. I don’t know why. Most of my lokies are “altered” anyway.
I toss all the rest.
I really love to burn LGB boxes. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Who would want to buy a heavily weathered LGB or Accucraft car with the original box?
None of my stuff is pristine out-of-the-box.

#16
Bruce Johnson said:
So, you're saying if I have attic space that will work, storage units have mice and I am thinging yours is not climate controled, thanks Bruce
No, it is climate controlled and has no mice.

All I said was I rented a storage unit, sorry, I rented a GOOD storage unit.

Regards, Greg

#17

Victor Smith said:

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I’m 100% with Vic on this. I haven’t saved one blessed box! All they do is take up valuable space and eventually fall prey to insects and rodents anyway. Perhaps it might be prudent to save locomotive boxes if you’re going to ship them in for repairs but I’d never save rolling stock boxes unless I was more interested in eventually selling “collector items” instead of using them. Too I modify, repaint, reletter and weather practically everything so collector value would be minimal anyway.

#18

I think saving only the boxes for the expensive pieces for shipping is smart… the storage unit is full anyway, ha ha.

Regards, Greg

#19

I burn them in the shop stove to help “Globall Warming”…we don’t need this snow, so I’m trying to melt it…

#20

Since here in yUK we have no

  1. Basement, or

  2. Grarge [that’s been converted long ago to a downstairs bedroom for our daughter and is now a study/reference library] or

  3. Useable attic [it’s low-pitched and full of plumbing],

We have to keep as much as we can in the original boxes. Sheesh. They take up a WHOLE DAMN ROOM, AND I’ve just off-loaded fourteen 1/29 locos without noticing any difference at all.

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