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    Just make sure you don't drop your condensors in the chip pan when the larder is empty... :-D trevor
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    And, of course, silver would have corroded black unless hyper sealed. Perhaps the new Polish government plan to use the money to rebuild Poland which, according to them, is in ruins... trevor
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    I need one. It can be hell on the roads going to and from work as there are only 3 bridges over the local river :-D trevor
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    Does the size of the wheels themselves give any clue to its use? trevor
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    I came across this here in Poland about a decade ago, but cannot remember where. I am not sure whether it is military or not, or why someone chose this to display. It looks to me like the front pair of wheels for a wagon, but it does not look like the usual farm wagon one finds around. Any ideas? trevor
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    I wouldn't be quite so harsh - they have had a stalled economy locally for a couple of decades and then - WHAM, all of a sudden they have to deal with something they have little experience with, and have both the government and international press breathing down their necks. And as you can see, it is not a site just in the middle of nowhere :-D trevor
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    Well, Polish searchers have had a lot to search for in the past 20 years, and even going through archives here can mean a mix of Polish, Russian, Yiddish, German and Latin, depending on where you are and what you are looking for. That part of Poland is, um, not so well developed as the rest of the country, which makes things a tad more difficult, and has a ton of stuff to explore. Twenty years ago it was hard to buy tools to repair your car, and it was still hard to believe that you would be allowed to do any looking. Today, it is all so different. trevor
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    Beautiful! Look forward to seeing the restoration! trevor
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    I have seen Bierut's arm, which fell off his bronze statue when they carted it away after he fell out of favour. Hen was born here in Lublin and became the communist president of Poland after the war - and if you ever collected stamps, it was his unhappy mug on all those Polish stamps. trevor
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    I would also like to stress that these coins were covered by a strange chemical substance, and went unobserved by any Russians. trevor
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    I found two grosz coins in a street in eastern Poland at the weekend. I plan to announce the exact location later this week. trevor
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    Especially a fabled nazi gold train? trevor
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    Now that people are mentioning the Amber Room, the odds of success are dropping like a stone trevor ps: thanks Pzkpfw-e, I had no idea where the armoured train originally came from
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    Armoured trains readily come to mind in Poland, as a number where successively used in Poland in 1939, while when I visited the railway museum in Warsaw 2006 they had an actual armoured train (of what vintage I do not know). trevor
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    Well, that area does need a HUGE boost (it is the least developed area of Poland I have yet to see, it was like stepping back 20 years), and I might even go back if there were something interesting to see. trevor
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    Darn, and I was down that way last week, should have taken me shovel.... trevor
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    Zaz, in Kazimierz Dolny in Eastern Poland. trevor
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    It is going to look good once it get some paint on! trevor
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    Stellar beauty, indeed... trevor
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    Hmm... you mention earlier that you fixed an air leak, I assume that it all went back together OK? Second, those air horns you removed, they were not plumbed into the air system somewhere or did they have their own pump? Other than that I have no ideas trevor
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    A sight to bring a tear to the eye of anyone in need of some new tracks... trevor
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    It is always a pleasant surprise to see as-original machined parts that have long remained hidden by a well-rusted exterior trevor
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    Nice, not your average artillery piece then :wow: trevor
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    And what might that be behind it and to the right? A piece of artillery? trevor
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    Does everything appear normal at the other end of the stick? Nothing been assembled the wrong way around, for example, as sometimes happens when things have been apart for a while? trevor
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