Taking down my layout in my house in preparation for moving all trains to layout in building in my backyard. Have around 10 Lionel Legacy and VL locomotives which may be in storage for a year or more.
The building where I am storing them is climate controlled. What is best way to store them? Original packaging? Any problem with smoke fluid in smoke units? With central a/c would there still possibly be problems with humidity? Any ideas on storage will be appreciated. Thanks! Bobby
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I would store them in a air conditioned place but ok to store in original boxes but make sure you sit the boxes upright so the smoke stack would be upright if you store them upside down the smoke fluid could leak out the engine! and I would take out the battery's if they have them and put new one's in when your ready to run them again!
IMHO
Certainly common sense rules - the batteries (which have no purpose if you run in TMCC/Legacy, and why would you run these any other way?) need to go and the smoke fluid advice is sound. Climate-control is better, but these things are actually pretty tough, in my experience. My train building is climate controlled only when I'm using it; my stuff - mostly TMCC, a bit of Legacy - is "stored" on the layout. It all seems to be stable.
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