In my travels around the area I have found several pieces of
equipment used for early transportation . This cache will take you
to two such devices, one is the alpha and the other is the
omega.
Whooooop!!! Whoooop!!! Whooooop!!!
The train whistle on the Nile Saunders Special breaks the
quiet and sunny afternoon.
The Saunders Special is a replica of a Southern Pacific 462
passenger engine. The late Nile Saunders, a Peshastin orchardist,
used the small train to haul equipment around his vast pear
orchards (thus the name Pear-A-Dise). He also gave children free
rides around his orchard for many years before donating the train
to the city of Wenatchee in the late 1980's.
This scale model locomotive was built by Hubert Perkins,
Columbia, N.C. in the early 1950's. It was purchased by Niles
Saunders in the early 1960's and installed, with 740 feet of track,
through his orchard at Peshastin.
In 1988, Niles Saunders offered the rolling stock and a large
assortment of rails and ties to the City of Wenatchee, for future
use as a children's attraction and community showplace. A local
committee, organized as the Wenatchee Riverfront Railway and
Navigation Association, undertook the installation and operation of
the railway in Riverfront Park. Phase 1, of a scheduled two-phase
construction effort, was completed on July 4, 1989. Phase 2
followed with additional and enhanced track, trestles and a spur
line to the Association's "roundhouse" several hundred feet upriver
from the caboose.
Go to these coordinates:
N 47° 25.650
W 120° 18.569
and gather all the information you need to find the final
cache location.
AB-Ton Locomotive
USA CDEF SPEC GH-DE-IJ-A
Contract W-KLMN-TC-OPQR
The Whitcomb Locomotive Co.
NO.
STUVW
May XYZZ
Cache Coordinates:
N ZL° KV.PMW
W I(Q-U)R° XC.EDB
Be on the lookout for spying eyes here. They are all around.
You might even need to take someone to be a diversion.
In His Service,
Red Bear
