Stolen MTH Dash 8 Engine

People these days have a lot of nerve. In our sick world there were 2 places I used to feel comfortable. One was my local hobby shop, the other was our private gun club....... looks like im down to one place in our society that I can feel comfortable

this is actually the fourth engine stolen. we happened to catch one person with one of the engines. he is currently being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!!

Hey Roger, what road name?

yes please post roadname and item number if possible.

hey ron!........... norfolk-southern............rogerw.

keep your eye out on ebay and craigslist..on the r/c boat site i belong to..guys get the boats stolen and they pop up on ebay and craigslist..

norfolk-southern(premier)......20-2944-1.........2010 vol.2..........roger

Sorry to hear about your loss, Roger.  I'll watch out for your engine.  Can you believe I was set up at a TCA train show here in MA earlier this month and I had two separate thefts within a half hour of each other?  Both items stolen were marked $12 a piece.  That's right, $12!!  Meanwhile, I had several $300+ engines on my tables.  I told my 8 1/2 yr.-old son, who was with me at the show, if someone needed a $12 item that badly they should have just asked and I would have given it to him/her!  Never ever thought I would have to worry about items being stolen at a small TCA show!

thanks for your concern joeyA...............rogerw.

Roger - sounds like a security camera is in order ... 

if it's at a good price nobody will say any thing.that's just my 2cents snow plow and traction tires real sorry for the loss
 

 This is real bad. I always feel sorry when I walk into a new store and the owner doesn't know to trust me. I go out of my way to be respectfull. I've been to shows where people grab stuff and even though they don't steal it, they paw it up so bad, I wonder why.

 My parents taught me when I was a child not to touch anything that's not mine. So the stealing of this is just plain disturbing. It's not like a Walmart or huge chain that can absorb anything like this, not that that's any better.

 http://mthtrains.com/content/20-2944-1

 Wow, that's a beauty too. I wonder if the scum bag is into trains?

That bites. I troll eBay a lot and will keep an eye out.

thanks to everyone for their concern!!!....................rogerw.

Roger,

 

I'll keep my fingers crossed you get the engine back.  Hopefully this person gets picked up for something and they find your engine in their possession. I hate to hear stories like this.

 

Ed

you can setup ebay and even craigslist to auto notify you of items for sale. Ebay can do it on it's own website, and craigslist can do it with 3rd party apps. I would setup a very very broad search and see what you get.

I agree with acid... If they're going to sell it on ebay or craigslist, they're probably not going to know who the manufacturer is, scale, what the road name means or that's expensive... So I'd look for generic postings of a train from someone that doesn't have any other trains to sell, starting low and rather vague descriptions and low-res pics.

Good luck and I'm sorry to hear about this.


-Mario