Bill, you're much nicer than me. If I said what I was thinking, this thread would be killed. Basically a person born outside of wedlock. I just setup an eBay search for these two items. If they pop up, I'll be sure to let you know. Depends upon just how stupid this cretin is. Even odds he kept them to run on his own layout or sold them on Craig's List or a tabletop train show.
The boxcab is going to be tough to spot. It does remind me, we DO need to mark our engines. A suggestion, use a metallic (silver or gold) Sharpie marker. Pull the shell and make a discreet mark. Maybe a dot, a line or an "X". Something that could easily be dismissed as a manufacturer's mark. Take a picture and save it. This could just be what you need to prove ownership if it is ever recovered by the police.
Watch Makers would scratch information inside watch cases when they worked on them. I had my Grandfather's watch rebuilt last year. The man that rebuilt it recognized his mark, and was able to tell me the last time he had worked on that watch. I had no idea that he had ever seen it when I took it to him.
