WALBRZYCH , Poland, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A search for a gold-carrying train from World War II under a mountain in Poland has yielded no results so far, researchers said Tuesday.
Local folklore in the town of Walbrzych has long held that rail tunnels beneath mountains, dug by slave labor under Nazi command, house a military train, laden with gold, art treasures and other valuables looted from eastern areas and on its way to Germany. Its progress was allegedly interrupted in 1945 by the advance of the Red Army and abandoned.
Researchers using ground-penetrating radar now say there may be a tunnel in an embankment near Walbrzych, but no train.
"If there was an armored train approximately 2.5 meters [8.2 feet] under the ground and 150 meters [492 feet] long we should see it on our research but there is no train. There may be a tunnel but there is no train," geologist Januz Madej of Krakow's AGH University of Science and Technology said.
Piotr Koper and Andres Richter announced earlier this year that evidence pointed to the existence of a train, and Polish Deputy Culture Minster Piotr Zuchowski said radar images appeared to show a train with gun turrets underground.
Koper said Tuesday he remained convinced of the existence of a train, and that work would continue to find it.
