Old Trains Never Die. Traditional Cache
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Old Trains Never Die
When caching first started the purpose was to find a unique location that you wanted to share with people and post the coordinates so they could find it and enjoy. You would also put a container at the location with a log book to sign and write about your visit to the location. In this era of Park and Grab, and Lamp Post Caches (other wise known as LPC’s (or lame pointless caches (smile)) the original intent is being lost. So, here is an effort to try to bring back some of the old way. We found this unique location and wanted to share it with people.
This cache is on an old abandoned part of the Coopersville-Marne Railroad which used to be part of the Grand Trunk Western Line which ran all the way to Grand Haven. Bring your camera as it is a great picture tucked away in the woods.
Coopersville is a small town, loaded with some great history and used to be a big railroad town. They still run the train for rides throughout the year. If you like trains, after you find this cache, go into town and visit.
Coopersville Area Historical Society & MuseumThe main brick-faced museum building is a former interurban depot and substation that was part of the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway.
www.coopersville.com/museum/
The folks at the museum are very knowledgeable and friendly. The kids will love it and some of it is hands on. Also there is:
The Coopersville & Marne Railway
www.coopersvilleandmarne.org
What you will be looking for.
You will be looking for a small black tool box.
There is easy access from 64th Ave.
Warning, the hint is a spoiler.
As you search,
Remember the cachers rule: Lift, look, replace.
The lost art of logging: As a cache owner, reading the logs about the visits to the cache encourages us for the effort that it took put the cache out. I also enjoy reading the logs of the other caches that I visit to see how their search went. Please take the time to post your find with a log entry that will share your experience with the others who have found and will find this cache.
FTF Prize: The ladies of the team feel that most FTF Prizes are too boy-ly (as in opposite of girly). So they wanted to put in a prize for the ladies. First time find prize is packet of homemade note cards.
Winter caching? The amount of snow will affect the difficulty of this cache.
Special thanks to Tree Toad for finding this spot..
06-08-08 Old trains never die but sometimes they roll away.
When we placed this cache we knew that there was always a chance that it could be moved. We took a good look around and saw the cars are obviously not in any condition to be used any more. Also, the breaks on the car had been cut with a torch. We put the cache on the last car towards the end of the line. I was pretty sure they were not going anywhere anytime soon.
Well, much to my surprise, Redbeard 30-06, contacted me and informed me that he thought the car the cache was on was gone. We went out to check on the cache. Sure enough the car was gone. All the other cars were still there. I couldn’t believe it. They repaired the breaks on the cars, moved all the other cars out of the way, took the car the cache was on, and put the other cars right back where they were. What were the odds of that?
The car could only go in one direction so we walked down the tracks to see if the cache fell out and may be laying on the tracks, somewhere. We walked into town and got to a spot where they were moving some cars around. I walked up to a railroad person to ask them if he knew were my car went, and there it was, attached to the train!!! We talked to the railroad guy and he went up with us to check to see if the cache was still there. It was. Almost ready to fall off, but still hanging on for dear life.
We had nice conversation about Geocaching and he explained that the section of railroad in not used any more. That is why the old cars are parked there. But they are taking the car the cache was on to be restored. We also talked about where to re-hide the cache.
We have re-hid the cache very close to the same spot, but in a place that won’t roll away.
We hope that you enjoy,
Old Trains Never Die.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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