Locomotive turntable Mystery Cache
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A turntable is a large circular platform which is used to turn locomotives and other rolling stock for railways. The reason the turntable was developed was because early steam locomotives were somewhat difficult to run in reverse. In some cases, locomotives lacked a reverse gear altogether, and in other instances, the reverse speed was very slow and clumsy, which could be a liability at a busy switching station or hub. As a result, train companies started building turntables so that they could quickly turn their locomotives around.
You will find one at given coordinates but there is no cachebox. The location of the cachebox need to be calculated as follows:
58° 5L’ [T+3],5’’
23° 31’ [(T-L)/R]R,9’’
where
T = number of the nuts on the thick bolts on the top center of the turntable
L = number of letters in the last word of the sentence written above one of the doors of the water tower nearby.
R = number of the former railroad tracks entering into the depot nearby (look the doors for locomotives).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
raq. 9... fdhng naq ybbx hc "B"...10