Poland: Please stop looking for that ghost Nazi train full of gold “I’m certain the train exists, but it might contain dangerous materials from World War Two,” said Piotr Zuchowski, Poland’s head of national heritage. “There’s a huge probability that the train is booby-trapped,”he added. The Polish government said “foragers” have become active near the town of Walbrzych in Poland where the 500-foot long train was reportedly found in an underground tunnel. “This is an appeal for any further investigations to be put on hold until we have finished the necessary official procedures relating to securing the site,” Zuchowski said. According to local folklore, the train is believed to have vanished in 1945 with loot from the German town Breslau, now Polish and called Wroclaw. NOW WATCH: A mysterious lost Nazi train — supposedly filled with gold — may have been foundLEGOs have been an iconic part of childhood for decades, but some sets have moved beyond the Christmas wish list and into the collector’s realm.
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Propulsion: 1 x PF Medium motor geared 1:1 Motors: 2 x PF Medium, 1 x micromotor I have been a fan of the LEGO 8184 Black Pearl set ever since it was released – it’s a jet black, shapely ship with an undead crew. However, since LEGO sets are usually cut down to meet certain budget restrains, I decided to build my own ship loosely based on it. I don’t own the 8184 set, I simply bought a number of unique pieces from it, including black hull sections, sails and some minor pieces. I have also looked through the 8184’s building instruction to see how to build the bow and masts of my ship. The final result is in some parts very close to the original set, while quite different in others. It can be argued whether it was a custom construction or simply a modified set, but it should be noted that the ship was larger and much more complex than the original LEGO Black Pearl. I was using only one inspiration when modeling the hull – the Revell’s Ghost Ship set, which is somewhat exaggerated but still fairly realistic.
The resulting ship lacked the nice shape of the original Black Pearl, instead it had a massive and tall rear superstructure, which was necessary to house all electric and mechanic components. The main problem was that side and rear walls of the superstructure had to be 3 studs thick each, to accommodate for windows with lights and red walls used as backgrounds. The ship was able to drive and steer, and featured a ship’s wheel which rotated while steering. The propulsion system consisted of a single PF Medium motor installed under the hull, driving wedge belt wheels with 1:1 gear ratio. The steering was carried out by another PF Medium motor rotating a vertical axle at the back of the hull, with wheels with tires on the bottom end, and with a big decorative rudder attached. At the same time the ship’s wheel was rotated by a micromotor coupled with the second PF Medium motor, using a single knob wheel which proved able to mesh with it. I was very close to making the cannons fire remotely, by installing a motor that pulled their triggers with small sections of string.
However, it turned out that the cannons’ triggers have to be instantly released to fire, and if there is any kind of delay resulting from the motor being unable to release all tension in an instant, the “cannonballs” stopped in the cannons’ exits. I was unable to find any simple solution to it, but at least by removing that mechanism I have gained more space – including space for the battery powering the ship, located under fake roof between the stairs at the back of the deck. I have been also toying with the idea of a chassis capable of rocking the entire ship, imitating waves, but I decided that such a chassis would have to be so tall that in the end it would barely look like a ship, more like a trailer with a ship on top of it. Making the ship really float was out of the question, as the hull wasn’t even remotely watertight, and even if it was, the model would sink under its own weight. It was also way too top-heavy to float properly. Instead, I had a lot of fun working on the crew, which included, among others, an undead fisherman, a rotting cook, a joker farting fire, a painter with inclination to decorate ammunition, and even a pooping parrot, which could be considered an ex-parrot 😉