DSP&P South Park Speedway Traditional Cache
DSP&P South Park Speedway
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The cache is a 35mm container. It is not 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. At this point the railroad has managed to enter South Park by crossing over Kenosha Pass and passing through the town of Jefferson just a few miles up the road.
The reason that narrow gauge was chosen was to reduce the cost of construction. It is approximately 2/3 of the normal gauge, or width, between the rails and the cost savings in mountainous terrain could be substantial.
Most of the route that railroad took was anything but flat and straight. Here is a section where a little speed could be built up safely and it the inspiration for the cache name.
The roadbed is under the power poles.
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