With the recent break in at hobbyshop/train stores.I have to ask has any body ever seen some one get caught steeling trains?Or some one at a train show get caught trying to steel trains.
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I have been red-handed all day since I started to paint these tinplate cars;
I have never heard of anyone being caught at a train show--that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
Scott Smith
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never saw anybody steal anything at a train show. I know it happens but never saw it.
Yes to both questions.
A man in a trench coat put an original Lionel #5344 scale Hudson in an inside pocket made expressly for that purpose and walked out of Madison Hardware with it. It had been displayed in the front window for decades until someone just couldn't resist taking it. That's why the Hudson that replaced it was a 773 from that point forward.
At York in the late 1980's someone walked off with a Santa Fe 2383 (?) ABA set, new in the box, from a table where the owner wasn't paying attention. But someone else was, and alerted the security officer at the door of the Blue Hall where the thief was just about to exit.
In other news, a small child was asked to watch a table for a parent who needed to use the facilities. A thief picked up an item that was marked $500 and handed the child a five dollar bill and walked off with the item. I am not sure if that case was ever solved.
I did run-down a youngster that snatched a caboose off a train while it was running on our modular layout. His mother threatened to call the police when I took it away from him. She thought better of it when I told her that it sounded like a good idea.
Gilly
A hobby shop that is now closed had unlocked display cases near the front door. The cash register was in the back. Someone walked off with several engines while the owner was serving other customers. He locked the cases after that.
The owner also told me that he often found things missing after a big crowd was in the store. The only time the store was crowded was during local train shows. A lot of people attending the show made it a point to stop by the hobby shop because it was located near the show's venue.
Unfortunately there are dishonest people within every group. Joe
I have heard about it while attending shows.
Arthur.......I remember that one with the child.......it was written up in the TCA National Headquarters News........I believe it was a mint Marx streamliner.......
Very sad that unscrupulous morons would take advantage of a youngster!
Peter
Henry from island trains caught workers in his store stealing thousands of dollars of inventory
Employees steal? Nah! LOL!
I was running my GN EP-5 Passenger set at one of my club's open houses some years ago. I parked the train on a siding and switched to another train. When I went to run the GN Set again it wouldn't move. To my surprise and disappointment, the engine was missing. We never found out who stole the engine.
