DSP&P Avoiding Red Hill Traditional Cache
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The cache is a 35mm container. It is winter friendly.
This is one of the caches in a series of caches dedicated to Fallen Flag railroads. Fallen Flags are those railroads that no longer exist either through abandonment or corporate takeover. With each cache will come a short history lesson explaining a little something about the railroad.
DSP&P are the initials of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific railroad. It was a narrow gauge line (3’ between the rails) that started life in Denver in 1874 and was headed to the mining camps in the mountains.
For a railroad to get past a steep hill, it must rely on one of three approaches. The first would be to build a tunnel through the hill. The second tactic was to lay out the track with loops and curves and maybe even switchbacks in such a way as to lengthen the track to the point where the grade in manageable. The third way which the DSP&P used for its approach to Fairplay was to simply avoid the hill and go around it. From a point you can see to the north the track headed in a southerly direction on a parallel with Red Hill. When the track reached Garo, a branch line was built back up to Fairplay and Alma.
The cache is located on the old roadbed.
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