clearly impossible." TMR erroneously (or perhaps,  taking artistic license) seems to date its action using 1923 as a  starting point. In addition, OConnell says that it has been "a  couple of years" yet when the three men with the chest go onto the  train, one of them says "those Yanks who found it 9 years ago".  Therefore, the time period is not even consistent throughout the  course of the film.