I have several freight and passenger cars without original boxes. Are there vendors who make boxes? Options for select different sizes?
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I have several freight and passenger cars without original boxes. Are there vendors who make boxes? Options for select different sizes?
Thanks
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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)
Good idea. At the moment, my highest interest is for two boxes for Lionel baby madison passenger cars. Anyone have some to share?
I would be interest in replacement boxes for modern era. My dog chewed through a couple of boxes trying to get at a mouse he thought was inside.
There are some cardboard box companies that make baseball card stock boxes that fit some Lionel boxcars & etc .
some boxes hold three cars .
If you're looking for reproduction Post War Lionel boxes, yes there are vendors who sell licensed Lionel boxes.
http://eastcoasttrainparts.com/
If you're looking for plain corrugated boxes, I use "trading card" (to us older guys, baseball cards) boxes. They are sized according to the number of cards you can fit in a box (550, 660...) or shoebox style with multiple slots. I buy mine from a local memorabilia shop that sells trading cards as well. Like these:
http://www.comicsandcardsuppli...ding-card-boxes.html
Hope this helps.
Mike
I use Trading Card Boxes from BCW. They work great for a wide variety of rolling stock.
Several years ago I purchased 10 MTH Car Carriers that came without boxes. The cars are 20" L x 2-3/4" W x 5-1/4" H. I checked out the trading card boxes per the above links, but nothing fit (the 20" long was the major problem). Any suggestion to obtain storage boxes for these?
Manhattan-RR posted:Several years ago I purchased 10 MTH Car Carriers that came without boxes. The cars are 20" L x 2-3/4" W x 5-1/4" H. I checked out the trading card boxes per the above links, but nothing fit (the 20" long was the major problem). Any suggestion to obtain storage boxes for these?
John, those are only 20" long, I think he needs something longer.
gunrunnerjohn posted:John, those are only 20" long, I think he needs something longer.
oops.. Thanks GunRunner
https://www.uline.com/Product/...ong-Corrugated-Boxes
or
https://www.uline.com/Product/...ong-Corrugated-Boxes
or
https://www.uline.com/Product/...ong-Corrugated-Boxes
Thanks so much. A great help!
@gunrunnerjohn posted:I use Trading Card Boxes from BCW. They work great for a wide variety of rolling stock.
gunrunnerjohn,
Which of these BCW boxes to you favor?
My two cents: Boxes take up too much room. Over decades, one acquires many boxes and one must ask: why? As for storage, I use large rubber containers and put the stock in paper bags. When there are many paper bags in a container, they act as cushions. The boxes, I concluded, are marketing ploys. Big boxes makes one think there are big trains inside. I recall going to a K-Line Super Store several years ago and thinking the O-scale items on display seemed small. The reality is those items are the same size as all the others. Add to that a well-known color and you have a marketing tool. I sometimes wonder if the other, non-orange box companies, used their boxes as marketing tools, they would still be around. In fairness, some large legacy locomotives do require special consideration. But, generally speaking, by saving all the boxes, I was creating a monster, that would ultimately require a small warehouse for storage. That is no longer the case. As for value, I do not generally sell my trains and they will go out the door with me somewhere in the future. Why worry about it?
Mark
I think it is interesting that people search for boxes so that their car/engine will be worth more because it is in the (?) original box even though it is an acquired box. Somehow seems not right.
My solution is easier. Most of what I buy is New, Like New, NIB or maybe NOS or whatever the best terms is to make me feel like I am the first guy to take it out of the box even though I am sure that is not really true. Since I seldom if ever sell anything it does not make a big difference. In fact the last thing I recall selling was my 50's 773 and Madison cars to pay my property taxes in 1973
@Dennis GS-4 N & W No. 611 posted:gunrunnerjohn,
Which of these BCW boxes to you favor?
I don't search for factory boxes, but with the number of cars I have, I like something that will stack evenly, that's why I use something that's a standard size. I favor the 660, 800, and 930 count boxes with the built-in lid flap.
If I had drawers or other places to stash the stuff, I'd probably not use the boxes.
I also store stuff like the shorter passenger sets like the Polar Express, Aerotrain, Hogwarts, and MTH Reading Crusader set in the four or five row boxes, depending on the length of the cars.
Get the better boxes from ULine (other other sellers):
https://www.uline.com/BL_1351/...-Indestructo-Mailers
As to why to use boxes; if you use something of uniform dimensions in at least 2 directions, they all fit neatly on shelving, etc. And, these also make good inner boxes for shipping those cars that you no longer want.
gunrunnerjohn,
Thanks for the pictures. Each of those boxes look very helpful!
I'd like to get the various cars from sets like the Polar Express, a Christmas set, and some other passenger and freight cars that have no boxes off of my RailRax, and into stackable boxes. Then I can label the boxes, and easily stack them onto shelves.
Most of this rolling stock includes items that I have run with the grandchildren. This provides an excellent way to easily store this rolling stock until they visit.
For easy reference, here's the link that gunrunnerjohn posted above:
mwb,
Thanks for the link in the preceding post! Those boxes also look excellent, and would be very helpful for my project. The boxes also appear to be very reasonably priced.
@mwb posted:Get the better boxes from ULine (other other sellers):
I don't see anything "better" about them. I like the BCW boxes because they fit stuff perfectly with no wasted space.
if you are not fussy you can get boxes that 5lb cheese comes in...like Land O Lakes or Boars Head...the store will give them away...they come in master cartons of 6 boxes...good for most traditional rolling stock also some engines...can't beat the price.....joe
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