DSP&P South of Fairplay Traditional Cache
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The cache is a 35mm container. It is not winter friendly.
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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.
This is cache is located at the most prominent road crossing of Hwy 9 by the old railline. When the rails were laid, this highway was nothing like it is now. It most probably was a dirt track. At this point the passengers would have been gathering together their belongings if they were going to depart when the train reached Fairplay. The railroad grade is marked by a string of power poles.
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