Re: SRA display model trains stolen!

[Mr Simpson <mdoyle@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Hunslet wrote:

> [...]
> Two of these models were stolen in a "break and enter" overnight on
> Tuesday/Wednesday 9-10th March.   The thieves (there had to be more
> than one owing to the size of the models and their weights), smashed
> their way through a secured door, bypassed monitored security alarms
> and cut through a security fence to reach the items.
>
> The thieves knew exactly what they were after, as they bypassed models
> of steam and diesel locomotives to take two items of electric rolling
> stock - a Tangara motor car and a Tangara driving control trailer car.
> Both vehicles were kept in specially made containers, with TANGARA
> painted on the outisde.   The other containers also indicate their
> contents.
>

Were those the two large black boxes with white stencilled lettering that
weresitting open outside 2nd west shed at redfern?? these were visible
from all trains
travelling past this location - I was wondering what those boxes were
for..

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