Well my baby's so
fine
Even her car looks good
from behind
Oh yeah! Well my baby's so fine
Even her car looks good
from behind
But the train that took
my baby -
It went clang, boom and steam
-Waits
If you go to the posted coordinates, you will not find a
cache, although you may get an idea where the real caches
are...
Pictured is a cover from an Appleton's transcontinental train
travel guide dated 1869. I'm not sure if there's a connection
between the author and Sarah Appleton (wife of Amos Lawrence) or
her cousin Samuel Appleton, both of whom this town was supposedly
named after [actually, Samuel was conned into believing the town
was named after him to coax him into founding Lawrence with a huge
monetary donation], but it's an interesting image nonetheless.
Plus, it contains a hint as to the whereabouts of the final cache.
Check out Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History
Museum to get a little historical perspective on mid-20th
century rail travel across the United States. It will transport you
to another time and place.
Now back to Tom. Waits has an affection for doing the same,
crossing over to the seedier side of life, sketchy places of his
imagination where carnies and caricatures reside en másse. An often
conjured scene is the intersection of greasy steam engines with
shadowy boxcars and pedestrial vagabonds, vagrants and multiple
personalities. While this song is rather abbreviated in content
(much like the final cache) there are many other Waits songs
replete with magically murky stops en route. From Adelaide
(Australia)"From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander with
new fangled buffet cars and faster locomotives" (Town with no
cheer, 1983) to Sheyboygan "Only once in Sheboygan did he miss
at a matinee on Diamond Pier (Circus, 2004).
I decided to add a couple of verses to the song just to see where
this train of thought would take me.
father Matthias, shaking in
his tracks
endrails split at the beam
where's he been?
there's sweet Charlette, hard wind against her back
and clutching at her beads
what's she seen?
while youngblood Kenilworth
from down South Island way
sits, taking in the mean
- seldom|seen
This is a multi-part puzzle. The first part is to locate 3 mircos,
we'll call them Clang, Boom and Steam. Clues necessary to find
these cache stages are on this page. When you find the micros you
will find a number representing the distance from each to the final
cache. Logically, if you find just one of them it will be rather
difficult to pinpoint the location of the final. If you find 2,
then you're chances are much improved. And if you find all three
micros, well then, your train's come in. To receive credit for the
cache, you'll need to log the find as normal PLUS e-mail me the
distances you found for Clang, Boom and Steam.