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I wonder if this could be the train that was supposedly carrying the missing sets of wings for Goering's aircraft collection that was evacuated to Poland late in the war, which included Udet's Curtiss Hawk and the fabled Me-209 racer:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/20/europ ... ?sr=cnnifb

I read that it went into a tunnel and never returned. IF SO, then it's gotta be off of a main railway in Walbrzych, Poland somewhere.

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TIGHAR to the rescue!! It'll take 10-15 years I'd guess, along with a few jaunts to the South Pacific, just in case.

I'm pretty sure there are a few Burmese Spitfires on that train too, along with L'Oiseau Blanc. Um..and Hitler's Diary.

And at the end of the 10-15 year period TIGHAR will hold a press conference and announce 'astounding' news that they have found the train and provide a piece of chocolate as evidence. Adolf loved chocolate.

I've seen this insanity on every forum I am on...
I can't count the number of found 'armored train' stories I've heard over the years. There was even one of a Russian armored train found in Bosnia by some IFOR troops. The version I heard was a joint USMC/British Ordnance Corps group extracted the entire train (with a steam locomotive) and moved it... somewhere. Problem was, you could never find any hard data on it from anyone. Classic urban legend. No evidence, vague description of what and where it is, and all 'info' coming by second, third, fourth or fifth hand...
The media is buying into this, but it sure seems like they snuck some sarcasm into the story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/...n-mystery/index.html The thing is, there wouldn't be tons of gold and explosives on the train. There simply wouldn't be a need to transport both. Blowing up the gold would just scatter it (and not all that far), so that wouldn't make any sense. No sane military would transport a treasure alongside any considerable amount of explosives (other than some grenades or man-portable anti-tank weapons in case of ambush), in a place where the Allies would have had full air superiority long before the train vanished.

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Looks like Oddball and the gang never made it out of Europe with the gold after all.

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Maybe there's a Tiger tank on that train as well.

Or a couple of Maus? Even better!

There's gotta' be 16 million dollars worth of gold on that train, mmmhmmm.

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Yeah, but when they try pulling it out, I'm sure someone will blow the bridge ahead of it...

"Ya see what sending out all them negative waves did, Moriarty?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ

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P51, the bridge is going to be there, and it's going to be there. It's a mother beautiful bridge..............

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good 1 nathan!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Not wanting to spread any neg waves but daily mail has been thumping this story all week.