homemade crates

Thank you POPI, great idea and at a low cost, very useful

                                Thanks for the link, I will be using it quite often. 

For strong easy to carry trays in which to store or transport rolling stock I use the low sided Costco produce boxes/trays,  available free at Costco check out. 

I hot glue  cardboard divider walls and stack them as high as needed.  Just right for 80' 0 scale passenger cars.  A 18" wide  roll of small bubble shipping wrap is available discount paper / party supply centers.  NOT HD or FedEx!!!  They are 4 times the price.

Tom Tee. The post is for miniature crates you make for the layout.😁

Tom Tee posted:

For strong easy to carry trays in which to store or transport rolling stock I use the low sided Costco produce boxes/trays,  available free at Costco check out. 

I hot glue  cardboard divider walls and stack them as high as needed.  Just right for 80' 0 scale passenger cars.  A 18" wide  roll of small bubble shipping wrap is available discount paper / party supply centers.  NOT HD or FedEx!!!  They are 4 times the price.

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The use of those Costco trays for storage also sounds like a great idea!

Wow. Great link, POPI. 

Sorry guys,  I  went down the wrong aisle.   We have regular merchandise boxes which assemble much like those in the link above.

Many moons ago either OGR or CTT had a pull out of two cardstock pages of crates.  When folded they were like the two in the heavyweight baggage car and several others.   John in Lansing, ILL

i bought a huge amount of HO ties on closeout long ago and still sit down occasionally and make up some boxes or pallets.  in 1:48 scale, HO ties are about the size of a 1x4 x ~4' (profile ties, not full ties)... a good scrap wood size.

some of the label bits might be a nice touch.

Anybody else try one yet?  Reach back for those paper doll skillz...