I lived in Indiana and went to several of Sout's Auctions live. Very entertaining. I once bought a post war cattle car near mint, then turned aournd and sold the boxes and papers in a later auction for more than I paid for the set. The fellow who bought the boxes felt he got a very good deal.
There are many people involved in toy train hobbies. I am an operator and boxes mean little to me. In my view a toy train that is not run is very sad. Others display trains and never run them, considering them works of art. Some collect just the boxes. Some only want boxes with the train inside and never opened or viewed. Stout's Auctions does its best to meet everyone's ideas for trains and let the one who is willing to spend the most walk away with the product. Stout and his associates do a remarkable job of grading and describing each item perectly so eveyone knows what they are bidding on.
I thank Stouts Auctions for adding to the hobby.
