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I definitely prefer these inexpensive tool cases to Walmart totes with bubble wrap taped to the bottom (which I have also used).  These cases sometime go on sale.  I cut out what I need.  I have two types from two different makers.  Most have plastic sides made to look like aluminum, but the frames definitely ARE aluminum. The good thing is that once the lid is closed the case can be picked up by the handle and carried sideways without movement of the locos....because I have cut the depth of slots so that the top's dimpled foam sits on the tops of locos/cars.  Not so with the last one in my pictures.  That last one is the kind I use for rail cars and I mounted wheels on the bottom to roll on the floor.  It is always used/carried in lateral positon. So these are good for locos, but you would need several for as many railcars as you have desired in the post. (edit)  In the past a similar foam can disintegrate with age.  Now, that was ages ago, and perhaps the new one does not.  But if this foam shows signs of disintegrating in 20 years, then out it goes...becuase that stuff is terrible when ancient and granular.  I have a feeling I will never last long enough to see it go bad, though.   <img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/c2_zps511d99ae.jpg" alt=" " /><img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/DSC03803small_zps9d7796a0.jpg" alt=" " /><img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/21_zpsb2e582e0.jpg" alt=" " /><img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/22_zps8be1fb8a.jpg" alt=" " /><img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/f_zpsb0bqbufx.jpg" alt=" " />
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