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No doubt this thief is headed for the scrap yards. Not Gettysburg. Hope these Jet items are found soon and whoever did it is locked away for a good length of time.

This reminds me of an incident I witnessed at our railroad yard several years ago. While returning in the RR cab after our switching duties were done, a student locomotive engineer noticed someone loading heavy steel tie plates (used between the rail and tie) into his small pickup truck. We followed him out of the yard and onto the highway. At the same time, we phoned the local police giving them coordinates as to where the truck was headed. Soon, a police car with lights off (this was around midnight) passed us in a flash and then turned all his lights on. To make a long story short, he was arrested for theft of railroad property.

A week later, he was caught by our own railroad police at the same place stealing the same tie plates. Apparently there is really good money to be made in scrap metal these days.