Our club the Denver Society of Model Railroaders also experienced a significant theft back in October of 2007 ($10,000 or more). We lost a Key Imports Big Boy, PSC M4A 2-10-4 (minus the tender!), Sunset BNSF GE unit, and a PRB Santa Fe full baggage among some loose pop fund money in the fridge and some odds and ends over a period of time. These items have never surfaced to to my knowledge; I've watched eBay, told the community it was even published in 48/Foot OSN. My loss was the PRB baggage car and have not been able to find another since.
The photo is the model stolen from the March meet. I was not at the show; as of yet I need to go to a March Meet (bucket list) but have a personal interest in spreading the word about this model since I also had a theft and our models are often one of a kind pieces we can't replace. We can only substitute them. We are a small family the 2 rail hobby and I still think these thefts are random by crooks that have no clue. Just the same our theft in 2006 was likely an employee of DUS with access to our facility. The theft occurred a matter of weeks after we had to surrender access to our layout room to the DUS management; first time in 73 years.
I hope the guys finds his model.
