What type of plastic wrap do the MFG's use to wrap their locomotives and rolling stock

From a cost perspective, depending on how many you have to pack, I have used regular zip lock bags - I think the quart size.  Most traditional size cars fit in those.  You might be able to get some cheap ones at the dollar store.  Don't seal them, though; you want any moisture to escape.

Brendan

I heard it needs to be anti-static.https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Pin...5:g:T~YAAOSw~bhcET3h

I was planning to get some of this shipping tissue paper to wrap the trains and then put the anti-static bubble wrap around them.https://www.ebay.com/itm/TISSU...4cc7b48cc1197f4d997a

J. Motts posted:

 I'm getting ready to move sometime in the near future to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area (finally, I'll be leaving the arm-pit of Texas).  

Never been to Texas (changed planes in Dallas once...), so, exactly which part is the "armpit"?

I do know that the styrofoam some use to store trains in will stick to your train paint finish and ruin it.  I agree that one should not store trains in sealed plastic bags.  I have not recently bought new trains but several years ago Lionel use styofoam in the box without plastic or paper between it and the train.  Storing with only styofoam and trains in a hot attic is a no no.

I store trains by wrapping them in paper towels (or even better is old clean white tee shirts) and then in the styrofoam or in the bare box.

Charlie

D500 posted:

J. Motts posted:

 I'm getting ready to move sometime in the near future to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area (finally, I'll be leaving the arm-pit of Texas).  

Never been to Texas (changed planes in Dallas once...), so, exactly which part is the "armpit"?

According to tradition as well as Urban Dictionary, that would be Port Arthur (due east of Houston), but  J. Motts appears to mean the farthest point west (as in closest to California).  Happens to be the only city in Texas I never have visited as a native Texan except seated inside a 737 on the tarmac, so I can neither confirm nor deny his judgment, though my great uncle worked for the Espee out of that west Texas town.

What, me worry?

The OEM spec:

2 mil, clear, lay-flat, open top, polyethylene bags.

8" x 14" covers most rolling stock and 8" x 18" covers most locomotives, unless you have a bunch of scale-sized diesels and/or passenger cars -- then do 8" x 20" or 24".

Polyethylene is stable for long-term storage.

TRW

These?

Brendan