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Reply to "replacement boxes for rolling stock?"

There are vendors that make reproduction boxes for Lionel postwar.

For anyone else, I personally don't know (beyond specialty cases for transporting multiple cars or locomotives).

For other brands, "good luck with that". A number of Forum members make no secret that they discard rolling-stock boxes. Perhaps we should set up a clearinghouse to mate unwanted boxes with folks looking for rolling-stock packaging.  (I could use boxes for an MTH 50' boxcar and RailKing SP-style caboose. I could also use a trio of Menard's boxcar cartons with the clamshell insert. I can compose and print my own labels for 'em)

For more generic rolling stock, I made a template from an MPC box to construct my own MPC-style boxes for cars up to 12" in length, complete with transparent window. Photos are in this thread from June 2015, which also discusses some other options.

---PCJ

(2021 edit: still looking for the above. Add a pair of Menards' three-dome tank car boxes with clamshells on top of them)

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