Wanted to share , I found these while killing time at a Staples near me. They are a buck. the lid comes off and locks in place, and stackable too.
It is big enough to hold screws and such while repairing an engine.
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I use 6 quart plastic shoe boxes with lids costing 96 cents each at Best Buy and Walmart. Keep the brand all the same so they stack nicely. The good thing is you can see what is inside of the transparent boxes.
My trains are stored in 32 gallon plastic totes by Rubbermaid costing about $8 each, and these stack nicely as well.
What's the item# for what you found at Staples?
I save the following for use on my workbench:
little plastic icing cups from Pillsbury Breakfast rolls
plastic cups from Italian ices
plastic trays from Stouffers frozen foods
The icing cups are great for paint or glue
The plastic ices cups are good for larger amounts of paint.
The plastic trays are good to hold all the screws, and small pieces when taking something apart.
Thanks for sharing.
I found these at the Dollar store, they are complete with lids, 4 for a dollar. I got several sizes. They're rounded at the bottom to make it easy to slide parts out, and the lids make it convenient to stash parts temporarily while you're working on something. If I'm interrupted, I just stick the lid on and I don't lose any parts.
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The sku is 5060024807684. This is a very small container rated at 0.14 litres. 2" wide,2.75 long and 1.75 high. They also have other sizes. The next size is 1.6 litre and is $4.99.
That is kinda cool. I'm partial to Folgers Coffee canisters, only because well what else are you going to do with them. But these are tempting because you can see what's inside, they appear stackable and have a nice tray on top. Where did you find them?
I have a similar box but it a lot bigger.
Allows me to keep the entire locomotive and all its parts in one box.
STAPLES
Originally Posted by Matthew B.:
That is kinda cool. I'm partial to Folgers Coffee canisters, only because well what else are you going to do with them. But these are tempting because you can see what's inside, they appear stackable and have a nice tray on top. Where did you find them?
...looks to me like they are held together with plastic end clips, not STAPLES 
Ed
Office Depot as well. I have the same exact thing holding my maintenance stuff, like grease, oil, mini screw drivers, track cleaning fluid. Very helpful.
Forty years ago, at the Navy Great Lakes Training center near Chicago, I was in charge of a very large recruit galley, For one meal, they served a sardine slice on a salad. When I noticed the cooks were tossing out about 300 empty sardine cans, I told them to run them through the scullery, dry them off, and put them in the trunk of my car.
I have used these 3" x 4" x 1" deep cans to this day, in cabinets with wide drawers.
I use many of my old HO Athearn boxes to organize small model railroad parts. Label the ends and stack them on a shelf.
