Speaking of Tunnel finds

During my second trip to Germany for steam in 1974, their was a little station on the Crailsheim line called Neiderstetten. I think I have the right name here. Anyway it was on a grade, and just beyond the station was decent sized tunnel.
While we were there, a German railfan was there as well, and the station agent chatted with us, somewhat through the German fan. The agent told the story that he was walking through the tunnel on his way to work one time and tripped on something between the tunnel wall and the rails.
It was a large winged eagle with the swastika in the middle. These used to adorn the fronts of German engines, and when the allies were getting close steam engine crews took off the emblems and discarded them so as not to be confused with the hard-core Nazi's.
This agent asked us to wait in the parking lot, and proceeded back into the station, and a couple minutes later carried this big ensignia out to the parking lot to show us. I have a slide of him holding it at arms length and it was probably 4-6 feet long. Wish I had it scanned to show you all. We thought it was a cool thing to see.
After seeing a lot of WW2 documentaries on war production in Germany where they had underground factories and the like, it would not be a big surprise to find some gold-filled train hiding someplace.
What is amazing to me is that the historical stories and finds just keep on emerging all these years after WW2.
I think Chris hit on the scenrio I also share in his comments above.

Greg Scholl