Thieves spiked in Winter Hill

By Ron Newman - 5/20/08 - 2:20 pm

Three Somerville ne'er-do-wells and a friend from Medford caught on the Lowell Line railroad tracks carrying a manhole cover and buckets full of railroad spikes and plates.

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Metal theft is going to get

By anon (not verified) - 5/20/08 - 5:28 pm
#1

Metal theft is going to get innocent people killed if it isn't stopped.

morons

By jdj (not verified) - 5/20/08 - 9:41 pm
#2

The scrap value of cast iron is about $300/ton. These guys will be lucky to get more than $15 for their manhole cover, which probably took the 4 guys about an hour to pry off and carry to the scrap yard. Next time they'd probably be better off shoplifting a stack of Boston Globes or 12-packs of soda and reselling them.

I agree with the previous poster, though, that a railroad spike is much more valuable to the person on the train than a junkie pulling it out for scrap.

Pile of Junk

By SwirlyGrrl - 5/20/08 - 9:46 pm
#3

If you ride the Lowell Line, you will see a very large pile of random junk around the location they describe in the article.

I don't think they did any prying ... just heavy lifting.

Good to know.

By anon (not verified) - 5/23/08 - 4:01 pm
#4

Good to know.

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