To: Pollard
OMG! This obviously has been going on for a while. Is it really that easy to break open a train car?
To: gloryblaze
OMG! This obviously has been going on for a while. Is it really that easy to break open a train car?
Most of these are likely a conex on a flatbed, how they're shipped from overseas, and easy to transfer to a semi. Two doors on the end, each with two handles that rotate the bar up/down to close it, like a rotating safe lock. One door overlaps, and then a metal flap with a hole slides over the closed handles. (Probably just one handle, really.) Then a small padlock secures the whole thing.
So, easy enough to break into within 20 seconds if you have a decent bolt cutter, or even just a solid hammer.
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