Over 100 years ago, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
ran this course. In 1891, the Kipton Depot was the site of a tragic
trainwreck that took the lives of 8 people. You can read more about
it on the big
brown sign at the posted coordinates. These days, any
hypothetical collision is likely to involve a bicycle, as this
stretch of the old LS&MS line is a rails-to-trails bike path.
A slow-moving train passes through Kipton, at the posted
coordinates, at noon. Moving at a constant speed, the train
continues eastbound toward Oberlin, passing Mr. J. B.'s Happy Dairy
Farm just east of Pyle-South Amherst Road at N 41° 16.862 W 082°
14.216 (waypoint 2) at 1215. Along the way, at 1206, the locomotive
engineer notices a couple of shifty-looking characters just north
of the tracks, rummaging around in the shrubbery. He shakes his
head. "Crazy geocachers. I hope they find their cache."
To locate the cache, solve for the location of the train at
1206. Then, add .012 to the north coordinate to find where
the shifty-looking geocachers were searching. They were looking for
a smallish-regular Rubbermaid container covered in camo tape; you
should too!
