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These bandits deserve the death penalty !!!
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"Inside one of the containers, they cut the padlock off a cupboard door, and there she was: an exquisite steam-powered model locomotive named Mayflower, her green boiler and brass engine bands glistening under the bandits’ flashlights.
They chopped into another cupboard housing a second locomotive. Discovering a key for a third shipping container, they popped its doors open and spotted two more choo-choos for the taking. These model trains often require decades to build and are considered priceless by their owners.
At market, they can fetch tens of thousands of pounds. And though they’re small, one-twelfth the scale of a normal train, they’re not that small.The locomotives—which burn model-train-size bricks of coal, carried in model-train-scale tenders and fed with tiny shovels—weigh hundreds of pounds each.
They’re powerful enough to pull eight children, who ride, straddling passenger cars, around a special narrow-gauge track at 8 mph."



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-28/britain-s-great-model-train-robbery-remains-an-unsolved-crime

in b 4 ~ evil thieving midgets did this ~

I'm afraid there's a snowball's chance in Outer Darkness of these Handmade beauties ever being recovered. They are too unique and the market is too small and intertwined. They are rusting in some wooded culvert, or smashed and scrap. There have been people hanged for crimes for which I can feel more sympathy.