Speaking of thieves, some years ago thieves, stripped down the catenary wire from the formerly electrically operated Extertal-Bahn (Exter Valley Railroad), which is now dieselized. They took down some 10 miles! of the precious copper wire, without being noticed!
The bunch of jerks that broke into the famous Marklin collection were cought and now have to serve high sentences in jail…
It is a bad, bad world… [tdn]
That is just horrible. I am most positive that his annoying sister is the culprit like my sister.
If it was a smash and grab and all he took was those brass engines then the thief may have had a buyer waiting with no questions to be ask…
A collectible engine that sells for $500.00 and the buyer pays pennies on the dollar to the thief and then a quick turnover for the buyer to a unknowning customer that gladly pays that $500.00…
I don’t think a collection of brass “toy trains” will be at the top of the police lists of crime investigations.
As dumb as these mook thieves are, they know the value and I’m sure not one of them would approach a metal dealer with brass loco, he would 75 cents for it, see how small the loco is, it has about 50 cents worth of brass, so this urban myth of stealing brass locomotives and selling to a scrap dealer is just that, an urban myth. A scrap dealer would laugh the jerk off his lot.