Rich,

Interesting suggestion re the foam inserts. Two local stores actually kept their display H-L's boxes folded due to space problems, using bubble wrap or peanuts once they were sold. Interestingly, both stores have dropped H-L - actually, no one in or near Birmingham carries them, save a shop's LLOM collection.

I also have a train hobby - G-scale, the large trains. Most of my 30+ engines and 100+ cars are LGB - made in Germany. The big styrofoam-filled boxes are in my attic... no telling what improvement I got in my R value there as a result. Sadly, there isn't room up there for the H-L boxes.

I feel better re my collection. I guess the letter from H-L made me wonder what the future would be with them, as the newsletter was canned. I'll hang on a bit longer... next February will mark two years since my last new purchase... perhaps it is time to add some 300+ numbers to my collection... if I could just 'see' them somewhere first!

John