In S Phila @ a decade ago the DOJ swarmed the place after finding about that, two 500 lb cluster bombs were missing from an unguarded railcar, that had just a tarp over the shipment, sitting right next to a Multiple Rocket Launcher, also covered with just a tarp. As far as I know it was never recovered, or that it might have been a clerical error mistake of stuff that was never actually put on board the railcar shipment.
A train was hit in the Projects when it was stopped for a signal, and thieves opened up several refrigerated plug door boxcars. Hoodlums were seen pushing shopping carts all around N Phila, trying to sell "Hot" 50lb cases of USDA Government Surplus Butter.
In Camden yard thieves were constantly opening up boxcars, and left torn open ripped bags of Or Ida frozen potatoes all over the ground.
One RR cop was setting up a sting to catch them, and got one of the culprits. Later on in the month the gang set the cop up, and surrounded him, and beat him mercilessly with a brake hose. I heard that he barely survived the retaliation attack of the gang.
A boxcar of Del Monte canned goods was set afire by disappointed thieves, who threw a RR fuse into the open boxcar.
One bulkhead flatcar loaded with 10's of thousands of dollars of lumber was also set ablaze by vandals in the yard, and the railcar was shoved and tipped over into the clear, as it was totally destroyed by the heat of inferno, and was unmovable, having to be cut up for scrap metal.
Hoodlums would sit up under a bridge, and roll junk car tires down the hill, breaking the air hose connections between couplers on moving trains, causing them to go into emergency.
The more people I meet ... The more I like Dawgs
