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Keep the original packaging of structures?  Why?

Here, I'll let my humility and humbleness show...just for a few sentences...  Some of the very best structures on my layout were built from a kit, scratch, or freelance.  Take, for instance, that humungous Gloor coaling tower.  That box of multi-pages of drawings/instructions, wood sticks and sheets galore, die castings, et al was fairly 'thin', not very long or wide.  I guarantee you that that huge coaling tower, loaded with details, time, sweat (no tears, though), will NOT...I repeat NOT!...go back into that kit box should I wish to store or ship it to somewhere else far, far away.  Ergo, if that box is now worthless to the future of that building, why would I 'treasure'...and store...the packaging of a (as Martin calls it...) "Drop & Plop" structure made in quantity by cheap labor in a far, far away land who had nowhere near the passion for that assembly effort that's in my coaling tower???

Ditto my Berkshire Valley, Ameri-Towne, Bar Mills, Design Preservation, Gloor, AMB, etc., etc., etc. structures, bashes, and freelances.

Nope.  Not in the same category as engine packaging/boxes, or most often for passenger/freight cars.  Actually re the latter...freight cars...I've built a lot of my fleet from kits...Ambroid, Athearn, Gloor, Quality Craft, All-Nation, et al...and have purchased storage boxes (ref. other threads of THAT subject) for them after their construction...the mfrs kit box having no storage/shipping relevance thereafter.

Actually, all that useless packaging stuff will only make the whole house burn more fiercely or pollute the neighborhood following the tornado in case those sorts of tragedies befall.  Hey, it could happen.

Besides, it's a frequently a sore point in the household discussions...both pro and con.

Whatever...

twcents

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