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Steam Shovel Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 8/26/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


NOTE : There is a Letterbox near the Steam Shovel.

Trust the coords to find the cache. The Lock and Lock is NOT the cache.

Please DO NOT use a tool to open the container Just a push of your finger a the correct location will open it! And nothing but the log inside. Anything else will restrict the opening of the container!!! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic steam shovel manufactured by Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Marion, Ohio. The shovel is located at Le Roy in Genesee County, New York. It is representative of the type of technology developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century to provide large, inexpensive supplies of crushed stone for the vast American railroad network and later for the road construction. It is a Marion Model No. 91 shovel; the model of shovel used in part to excavate the Panama Canal. It is considered to be the world's largest steam shovel surviving intact. This machine was bought by the General Crushed Stone Company, who operated the world's largest rock crusher at a quarry in Le Roy. The shovel, which weighed over 100 tons, was originally mounted on flanged rail-wheels, but was converted to caterpillar tracks in 1923 using a conversion kit manufactured by Marion. A crew of three men were required to operate it: a fireman, who kept the boiler fed with coal and water; a crane man, who sat on the left-hand side of the boom and tripped the 1 5/8 yard bucket by tugging on a wire rope attached to the bucket; and an engineer (or driver), who raised and lowered the bucket and drove the machine along the track. This shovel remained in use until 1949, when it was driven out of the quarry and parked by the main road – where it remains to this day, although no longer functional. The Le Roy Town Council purchased the land on which it sits. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The cache is not located on the shovel, no need to go past the posted fence line to find the cache. BYOP.

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