I was reading this morning that Russian thieves have made off with two 40 tonne locomotives from a museum.
The locomotives were used to pull the trains carting materials to construct Stalin’s prison camps in the Siberian Gulag. For 50 years they had been preserved at the Permafrost museum. They reckon that they’ve probably been stolen to sell as scrap.
What I want to know is – how do you steal a locomotive? How do you steal two locomotives? They’re not the kind of thing that you can slip into a sports bag while visiting the museum. You can’t just fire them up and drive them away either.
I hope these relics of history are tracked down and that they’re still in one piece. I hope that the thieves are brought to justice. I hope most of all that we get to find out how they got away with it in the first place.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Sounds like quite a heist. The must have “trained” for ages to pull that off! 🙂
Yeah, how DID they do this?
That’s so weird. How in the world would a person steal a locomotive much less two? It’s not like just walking into the corner store and pocketing penny candy. It would be interesting to find out their line of thought before the heist. I mean, were they sitting together over vodka shots and just all of the sudden thought it would be a fabulous idea? I just don’t get that.