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Post by Christian on Nov 3, 2021 11:15:50 GMT -8
I just found this on trainorders and thought it might be of interest.
Posting by Jason Shron
A trailer containing two of our distributor shipments was stolen from the shipping company's yard on the weekend. This primarily contains HO scale Procor tank cars and N scale CP FP9A locomotives. The stolen merchandise includes almost 1/3 of the entire tank car run.
Should anyone hear of large quantities of these models suddenly being made available for sale, through eBay or some other channel, please contact the Rapido team at trains@rapidotrains.com
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Post by jonklein611 on Nov 3, 2021 11:17:33 GMT -8
Yikes, that'll hurt the wallet a bit.
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Post by riogrande on Nov 3, 2021 13:03:19 GMT -8
It was posted on TrainOrders. Hopefully they have insurance to mitigate the loss.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Nov 3, 2021 13:14:39 GMT -8
Even so, I'd prefer the stolen items were removed from the hands of the thieves, and perhaps sprinkled with some jail time.
They still have jails in Canada?
Ed
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Post by lvrr325 on Nov 4, 2021 4:45:12 GMT -8
I can only imagine the trailer was stolen for the value of the trailer, any contents they find they can fence is a bonus. Stuff might end up in a dumpster or something.
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Post by riogrande on Nov 4, 2021 10:29:32 GMT -8
Recently posted at TrainOrders:
Hi all,
The thieves abandoned the trailer, taking a lot of the goods but leaving the pallets of model trains behind. They opened a few boxes, were evidently confused, and left the rest.
Thank God.
Francis (our warehouse manager) and Dave (our warranty supervisor) went to the freight warehouse and are fixing up the pallets that were opened. It looks like we'll need some new packaging for some models, but the models themselves are fine. The shipment will be on its way later today.
-Jason
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Post by canrailfan on Nov 4, 2021 12:40:07 GMT -8
Model trains wouldn't be the easiest items to fence. Glad the shipment was recovered.
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Post by klinn on Nov 12, 2021 15:03:05 GMT -8
Yeah, it would be much easier to move a truckload of Nvidia video cards. Fortunately my Procor tank cars had already arrived at my LHS so I guess they were part of the other 2/3's of the run. |
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Post by rounder on Nov 12, 2021 16:14:02 GMT -8
begs the question, does a model that gets its packaging roughed up and subsequently re-boxed, get sold as a brand new, factory fresh model? because in the strictest sense of the definition, it really isn’t, right?
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Nov 22, 2021 16:35:18 GMT -8
Only the Shadow knows...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2021 9:57:45 GMT -8
Well, based upon the fact that my Procor tank cars are not here, those must be in the 1/3.
Now about those BNSF Kodachrome B36-7 units, which were supposed to be in by now (unless that deadline changed yet again)...where are they? Were they also included? I'm awaiting one of those, too.
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Post by jonklein611 on Nov 24, 2021 14:18:56 GMT -8
Well, based upon the fact that my Procor tank cars are not here, those must be in the 1/3. Now about those BNSF Kodachrome B36-7 units, which were supposed to be in by now (unless that deadline changed yet again)...where are they? Were they also included? I'm awaiting one of those, too. Rapido's Facebook mentioned the B36-7 are shipping this coming week (posted on Nov 21). |
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