We've learned that the Tulsa Garden Railroad Club had a trailer full of their equipment stolen, just a couple of weeks before they host the national convention.
Sharing in case someone can help them recover the items.
http://www.newson6.com/story/35762810/thieves-caught-on-camera-stealing-trailer-full-of-model-trains-from-tulsa-storage
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
That stinks.
Going off the video they went straight for that trailer.
Hope they get caught
Is there a group watching ebay or other auction sites?
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An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
I would imagine some of the club members would be.
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Update: Some of the items stolen were found.
http://www.newson6.com/story/35785001/police-recover-some-model-trains-stolen-from-tulsa-storage
any update on this yet?
I think if you read between the lines (thieves steal a nice UMARKED trailer from the club, then steal another trailer "U Haul", and dump the stuff from the nice trailer to the U Haul... probably the thieves just wanted the trailer.
It was a nice looking trailer, and very little difficulty to grind off any serial number, if any, and re-register for their off road stuff or whatever.
I think you will find that whatever was not recovered (which has not been made public I guess) is gone forever, i.e. the thieves did not want the trains.
Greg
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