I am going to take a contrary position, and suggest you take them out of the box for pictures. I realize some people who collect trains want them basically in the box mint, not touched by human hands since they were packed, or are worried about possible damage, and I understand that. Yes, if you give people the model number they can look it up and see what it looks like. On the other hand, speaking only for myself, if someone puts pictures of the box on their ad on here I generally won't take the time to look it up on the web (unless it is something I had been looking for,like a specific engine). On the other hand when browsing, someone puts up an ad with pictures of the item(s), they catch my eye, and I bought the item, even though when browsing I wasn't really looking for anything specific, but bought it simply because I liked the look. If with the same item they only put the model number or a picture of the box, I likely would move on to the next ad.
