DSP&P Alma Branch Traditional Cache
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The cache is a 35mm container. It is 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.
The Alma Branch as it was called, might seem more correctly named the Fairplay Branch but such was not the case in 1881-82. At that time Fairplay had been producing ore for some time but Alma had come on strong and was promising to produce even more. But sometimes things don't turn out quite as well as we had hoped. Today Alma is a small community while Fairplay has surpassed it. This branch was abandoned in 1936 when the mines played out and the need for the railroad was greatly diminished.
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