Travel Bug Dog Tag Rusty Spike

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, January 20, 2003
Origin:
California, United States
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Current Goal

The Rusty Spike wants to travel the country, visiting railroad yards, railroad museums and other areas of railroad history. It would also like to meet up with its cousin, The Golden Spike, near Promontory Point, Utah, at the Golden Spike National Historic Site. This guy is really getting a workout too. Let's hope he continues his travels. Here's where he's been so far.

About This Item

The Rusty Spike

The Rusty Spike was forced to stay in one spot for many years, while watching trains travel by, taking goods and people to places unknown. Now that the Rusty Spike has been freed from its earthly bounds, it too, wants to travel far and wide.

The Rusty Spike wants to travel from cache to cache having it's picture taken next to locomotive engines, railroad yards, railroad museums, and railroad historic sites.

Traveling by rail to other caches would be a dream come true for the Rusty Spike. It has always wanted to take a ride on the Reading Railroad, or take the trip from Durango to Silverton in Colorado. Meeting its cousin, the Golden Spike in Utah, would be a highlight as well.

The Rusty Spike has no itinerary, but will rely on the cache hunter to come up with new and interesting adventures for it to take. With this Travel Bug, the journey is the goal.

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Tracking History (10912.6mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 9/13/2006 biggestc retrieved it from Cedar City - A Home for Wayward Travelers Utah   Visit Log

Found this at Cedar City - A Home for Wayward Travelers. this was an exciting one to find. i can get it very close. In fact i may take it myself. found with 1geobug, banannajo and ticklebug. Thanks for the fun.
Dropped Off 9/8/2006 radarsdad placed it in Cedar City - A Home for Wayward Travelers Utah - 288.83 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/8/2006 radarsdad retrieved it from Rattlesnake pass Utah   Visit Log

I grabbed this one from Rattlesnake Pass and planned to move it closer to Promontory Point. However, not being too familiar with the area, I didn't realize it was close already.

After passing the Promontory Point exit on I-84, I tried to find a nearby cache (the only other one in the area I had coords for) but was unable to get to it.

Long story short... It wound up in Cedar City (my bad!) with the note to move it to its original destination at Promontory Point.

Sorry for the delay 😟
Dropped Off 9/4/2006 Reserve ID placed it in Rattlesnake pass Utah - 28.87 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/2/2006 Reserve ID retrieved it from Tortoise Hotel Utah   Visit Log

I'll get him to Rattlesnake pass if some kind soul will take him to golden spike!
Discovered It 8/12/2006 BigG59 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered this caching today.
Discovered It 8/11/2006 kartch5 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it
Dropped Off 8/7/2006 Squib-C-kers placed it in Tortoise Hotel Utah - 13.53 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/24/2006 Squib-C-kers retrieved it from Northern Cache Valley TB stop Utah   Visit Log

Tracked this spike down, will chug-a-lug him along to a new cache soon.

Dropped Off 7/5/2006 The_Simpsons placed it in Northern Cache Valley TB stop Utah - 68.75 miles  Visit Log
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