WVIT-TV, New Britain, CT (NBC Connecticut), 4/19/24
Police arrest suspects in theft of railroad tracks that popular ‘North Pole Express' run on
Two people are accused of stealing railroad tracks in Old Saybrook that the popular Essex Steam train and “North Pole Express” run on and selling them as scrap metal.
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They have been charged with damage to railroad property in the first degree, criminal mischief in the first degree, larceny in the fourth degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, conspiracy to commit damage to railroad property in the first degree, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in the first degree, conspiracy to commit larceny in the fourth degree and conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment in the second degree.