Another treasure(s) destroyed GE Locomotive

[DaveWM]

Originally Posted by compucat

How did these sets get shipped all over the country when the were new? Weren't they just in cardboard boxes with packing? Were these sets treated like fine china and shipped carefully by conciensous handlers and drivers? I love Bakelite sets but just can't trust anyone to ship them correctly.

Just a guess but prob two things, correct packing, and s distribution system that was less consumer to consumer and more factory to warehouse to sales center, and I would bet a lot less machine moving. there was a video posted on VK I think while ago that was a training film for proper handling of freight by rail employees.

correct packing requires an understanding of basic physics. I am pretty confident I could pack pretty much anything and have it survive, but it would not be cheap, and I would want to be paid for both materials and at lest a somewhat reasonable amount for the time to do it right, otherwise I would just leave it up to the seller to come and get it. Needless to say I rarely ship anything. The last time I did it was when a CRT was shipped to me by an Ebay seller. it was just set loose inside a box with NO packing at all.

some how it managed to survive undamaged but the seller sent me the wrong CRT.... he had mixed up my address with someone else (Tx) and they got my CRT. I did not want it anymore (it was a time sensitive thing, I was fixing the set for someone else, and the time had already lapsed). So he asked me to box it back and stick on a shipping label to Tx (he provided).

Needless to say I did NOT want to just put it loose back in the box and wash my hands of it, so I ended up spending quite a bit of time fabricating a proper box to support the CRT, neck and keep it so no matter the orintation the thing would survive. So I am out no cash but prob at leas 1 hour of fabrication, take it to UPS, and have nothing to show for it. I HOPE it got there alright, I never heard back from either the seller or the buyer, no good deed...

Maybe it got trashed even with my efforts, but it would have been nice to know. I do know the seller stopped selling the CRTs, he had a bunch of BW tubes and was selling for 99$ IIRC (I think I told him how he was not shipping correctly).

think it was a 21LP4 or something like that (think that is what I wanted, I got something different that was too tall).