Inexpensive rolling stock storage boxes

[riogrande5761]

FWIW, the Spring Mill Depot boxes come with sheet plastic if foam sticking is a concern - I imagine you could line both top and bottom.  Of course, the better your storage boxes, the more they will cost.  I believe there are storage boxes available which all you to store rolling stock upright on their wheels, and they are considerably more expensvie IIRC.  I don't recall the name and cost right now.

[tstage]

FWIW, you may not want to use gray foam-on-paint for long-term storage.  You might run the risk of the foam sticking to the paint on your rolling stock after a while.

I line all my Axian Technology (AT) foam-lined storage boxes with tissue paper - top & bottom - as a barrier between my rolling stock and foam.  That is one of the precautions AT recommends with their product.

Since I'm in-between layouts at this point in time, all my rolling stock is in long-term storage but in a dry place.

Again, FWIW...

Tom

[riogrande5761]

And for folks south of the Great White North border, there are some reasonably priced train storage boxes from Spring Mill Depot.  I've got a couple of these and plan on getting more - Spring Mill Depot rolling stock storage boxes with foam inserts $10 each and can store a bunch of freight cars (e.g. 27 45' hoppers). 

http://www.springmillsdepot.com/boxes.htm

 

[hon30critter]

Hi everyone:

I just found a reasonably inexpensive source for corrugated cardboard boxes to store and carry my rolling stock in.

Early in my time in the hobby I foolishly threw out most of my rolling stock boxes because I had set up several shelves on which to display all my cars. As time has progressed those shelves are starting to overflow. I now have boxcars three deep in some places, and of course they are all gathering dust. Some cars came without boxes so that has added to the problem too.

I decline to pay eBay sellers two or three dollars each for empty boxes so I decided to see what I could find on line. I very quickly discovered these guys:

https://www.uline.ca/BL_403/Flat-Boxes

I just ordered 25 boxes that are 14" x 6" x 2". They will hold four standard freight cars each, and they were only $0.81 each plus shipping. That works out to about $0.37 per car. Unfortunately the source doesn't offer partitions but I figure I can make those.

The boxes are a good buy for we Canadians IMO, but I'm sure there must be similar companies in the USA.

Now I can get my storage shelves in much better shape!

Regards all,

Dave