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Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 2:00 PM
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Two treasure hunters claim they've now found it and have a law firm representing them in order to claim 10% of the findings. It's all over all the news sites to i'm giving you a slightly more upmarket news source for once:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11812174/Has-a-lost-Nazi-ghost-train-carryi...
You can find it on all the news sites via google..
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 2:50 PM
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So what odds are you giving that their is gold on the train ?
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 3:39 PM
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Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 4:50 PM
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Quote from: gleneagles So what odds are you giving that their is gold on the train ?
Well I would assume that the men have at least boarded the train and inspected some of it - probably without a thought to their own welfare at the thought of finding it. I doubt they've just found it and decided "right mate thats full of gold" type of thing.. they must have inspected it to be sure its worth wasting their time.
Quote from: Strat Must have been awkward for other train drivers going through the tunnel and having to go round it.
Well from the several articles i've read the line was abandoned / forgotten about / removed / buried. It would appear that the actual tunnel itself probably had its portals infilled along with their cuttings (something british rail did here after the beeching axe with many of our tunnels). If the rails had also been pulled up then the average joe over the decades would have no idea it was ever there which would explain the difficulty in finding it. As soon as i read it i was straight onto google earth. Now normally you over here you can see disused railways pretty quickly on google earth as they're incredibly hard to erase from the landscape (not like you're going to remove an embankment with a spade is it) however out there near the mentioned castle it took me a good few minutes to see the suspected railway line - but once i saw the tell tale signs it was almost impossible to miss. From the ground though, it would be very hard to spot anything in woods that have been growing for 60 odd years.
This is the area in general and we now know its near the castle:

If we zoom in, to the average joe there is nothing to be seen however if you look closely, there is actually an accurate curve where there was once a line - possibly more, heading towards the woods:

As first you might think thats a coincidence however for some quirky reason, disused railways always seem to grow trees at the sides of the former line - rarely in the middle where the rails where. I've no idea why but i've seen it time and time again. For this reason I'm sure that is a railway curve.. possibly a former set of points there and a possibly loop once existing there too.
If you look lower down, evidence backs it up - this is the dead end of the existing railway (which still has rails there) - which connects to the rest of the railway.. however this is where that line would have once connected to:

On the left there seems to be a cutting which after 60 - 70 years might not have been immediately obvious to the locals as a railway cutting (if anyone even knew it was there other than the farmer) :

That said i originally thought it ran slightly south and someone has posted a photo of the what i think might be a cutting.. which is inconclusive - it could be man made but if it was, it's not looking very man made now:

It seems viable that there may have been two possible routes out of the woods from imagery further along:

The articles state it was in a tunnel by the castle so it would appear to be along that route I would imagine. That said the Project Riese apparently consisted of 5.5 miles of tunnels and i think 7 of them in total so it may have deviated further under the castle OR been a tunnel leading off a tunnel.. that had been bricked up etc.
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 6:16 PM
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you can never underestimate the sheer lunacy of the fanatic and its long been known that several of the reich's leadership descended into the tunnel network at Belsen having left orders for the ss detachment to flood them 20 minutes later (by emptying the watertowers and blowing the water main)
the reason why so many searches in the past have been unsuccessful are likely down to the plethora of underground and over ground routes destroyed both by looters and by fighting (the Nazis laid the rail lines but the locals didn't benefit from them so the fist chance they got they stole all the materials they could destroying any trace of the old rail lines for many years)
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
21-08-2015 7:06 PM
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21-08-2015 7:11 PM
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Quote from: nanotm they stole all the materials they could destroying any trace of the old rail lines for many years)
Even so, you can't usually erase disused railways from the earth so easily. Embankments, cuttings, odd bridges etc.. they are significant structures that are usually visible for a very long time. This line however appears to be almost gone. If you look at the last photo i posted you can barely see whats left of it on the lower route out of those woods (which of the two, i believe is more likely to be a railway line).
Anyway i'm fascinated by this story, not just because of the treasure but the actual train and the tunnel. Imagine that.. stood there buried for 60-70 years and found after all this time. I'd be very interested to see photos of the train or even see it one day in person. I know some poles from that area so i might get to do that one day..
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
22-08-2015 12:39 AM
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With the paltry amount paid out in war reparations to compensate slave labour most (probably) still remains untouched.
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
28-08-2015 2:52 PM
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Polish authorities are now saying that they intend to return any found treasures to those it rightfully belongs to. Considering it was supposed to have come from jews in the form of tooth fillings etc, I think it's only fair it goes back to them - they were subjects of terrible atrocities.
I bet that will upset the german man of the two men who found it.
The telegraph are live reporting on this each day - More here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11830226/Nazi-gold-train-found-live.html
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
02-10-2016 9:24 PM
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BBC2 had an interesting program about this tonight... it'll be on iPlayer no doubt.
The two hunters dug up several holes at k65 (different from previous theories of its location) but found nothing claiming that they had been blocked by rock and needed to go deeper.
I still reckon that somewhere in that region there is a stash waiting to be found. I just need to put me together an old coach full of exploration supplies (scuba gear / oxygen, metal detectors, drills, fibre cameras, FLIR etc) and i'll be sorted to go and find the thing. That or I need to borrow the mole from international rescue lol.
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
02-10-2016 10:21 PM - edited 03-10-2016 5:39 AM
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And Wren never built St Paul's, Capability Brown never dug over a flower bed and Brunel never laid a railway track!
Don't limit the friends you haven't met with arguments you'll never have.
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02-10-2016 10:32 PM
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@7up wrote:
I need to borrow the mole from international rescue lol.
You don't want to do that. The chances are you'll pick the wrong mole and end up with Doug McClure as co-pilot.
Then before you know it you'll be at the centre of the earth under the thrall of mind sucking giant parrots.
Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
03-10-2016 6:19 AM - edited 03-10-2016 11:03 AM
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Stolen gold from God knows where, no doubt much of it as you say stashed in those Swiss bank accounts.
As for any ghosts, numbered amongst them will be the millions who were shot, gassed and burned in those death camps. Happy spending on any proceeds as they stand behind. Simply shameful in my eyes.
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Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
03-10-2016 8:49 AM
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Very interesting TV it gives more questions than answers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07yc9zf/hunting-the-nazi-gold-train
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Re: Nazi ghost train full of treasure has been found
03-10-2016 3:58 PM
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@Minivanman wrote:
@billnotbenHappy spending on any proceeds as they stand behind. Simply shameful in my eyes.
Dude seriously read to the end of the thread before commenting... the train has not been found where they reckoned it was.
Granted they say they need to dig deeper but they've still not found it.
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