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A question or curiosity. How do steamers store stock (how's that for alliteration? )?

My work bench has a few, overflowing shelves of wagons and as it is becoming very congested. I have an outdoor shed that the railway loops in but I'm not sure how steel wheels and wooden bodies would fare in an unheated shed. I also feel it is less secure than indoors.

Where do you keep your stock and are any easy ways for getting those wagons out for running? I'm not a great operator but I don't know whether the fag of getting stock out makes me not bother. Does anybody store trains ready for running?

I'll be interested to see what you clever modellers do.

I have a two-road lean-to shed on the back of the garage that holds the equivalent of eight bogie wagons ready for immediate use, all made of wood with steel wheels. They live in there all year. No issues other than cobwebs!

bazzer42 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:02 am I'm not a great operator but I don't know whether the fag of getting stock out makes me not bother.

Snap!
Getting trains out plus the hassle of cleaning all the leaves etc off the line.
'fraid I don't have an answer to your question though.

Sorry - not a 'steamer' but I do store stock. My original solution was to construct a set of stock boxes for each siding on the railway from plywood and, at the end of a session run the stock into the relevant box and then store the boxes in the leanto. .
However, I've now developed problems with the disks in my neck which flare up if I do any excessive carrying and twisting (necessary to manoeuvre the boxes through the doorway) and so I knocked a hole through the wall of the garage and store the stock in there. . .
It takes a little longer now to shunt all the stock from the storage roads out to the sidings but at least it doesn't give me neck problems.

Rik

Like the wooden rails Rik. My granddaughter has some a rather like that only a bit smaller!!

I normally store the stock in Really useful boxes. Well I did until the stock outgrew the boxes I can fit in my room! In time, storage in another location is being discussed but that's for another day.

Stock less than 550mm long - Really useful Boxes either 64L or 84L
Stock 550mm or longer - Cardboard boxes but will be 145L Really Useful Boxes in time.

Jon

I have three sidings in the basement/workshop area of the house which connect to the railway via a steeply graded and sharply curved branch line (good for trying to work a steam loco hard) however this only holds a small amount of what I own, so the rest is stored in various places round the house.... I do make sure that at least one of the connected sidings holds a train that can be run out at a moments notice.