Secret German WW2 train

This news was posted here yesterday. It vaporized within an hour.

That was due to you political incorrectness

It was posted in another thread. I know that the Nazi's were running trainloads of art, gold, and other valuables out of occupied territories and into Germany and stronghold areas (like Poland) like crazy. Then as the Allies advanced, they were moving valuables as fast as they could to keep them out of the hands of the Russians from the east, and the US/Britain/French Resistance from the west. Rumors abound of secret stashes of gold and other valuables at the bottoms of lakes and in train tunnels where the entrances were dynamited. On its face, the story is somewhat plausible, but the proof is in the photo-documentation and authentication of whatever, if anything, they actually find when they excavate the site.

If such a train existed, it would have consisted of unremarkable rolling stock and locomotives, whatever could be commandeered.

Watch the movie "The Train."  It would've looked a lot like the equipment used in the movie. 

Rusty

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.

Screen captures from "The Train:  United Artists, 1965, MGM Home Entertainment 2005.

Rusty

I heard these guys already found that train 

"Ya see what sending out all them negative waves did, Moriarty?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ

Kelly's Heroes, one of my favorite films!

This is one of my favorites too.  I love what song Oddball plays as they leave the wreckage of the railroad yard.

Stuart

They confirmed its finding.  I will be fascinated to see the pics of this old train and find out what's inside it.

A whole lot of stuff "dispappeared".  All that artwork was found under noses recently in a Muenich apartment, so anything is possible.  I vaguely remember reading about

something dumped into a lake on the Swiss/German border.  Of course, some of it

probably went east...far east.

Looks like we are getting closer to finding out if it is full of interesting treasure or just a big hoax!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...een-proof-radar.html

That will be very exciting to see what is in the train.

Mikey

Now that the politicians are involved, there must be some truth to it!

If there are ground-penetrating radar images, then the historical significance will be very high. I would imagine, though, that anything valuable and highly portable could be long gone.