When you come for this cache you can open your eyes and see many
railroad locomotives, displays of cars, fire trucks, buses,
trolleys, planes, and a boat.
Parking is free and one can view a portion of the collection
from the parking lot. There typically is one summer weekend when
admission is free. Most of the time there are fees to walk on and
inside the trains.
Have fun finding this cache in this St Louis County Park. You do
not need to pay for admission to get this cache, and the cache can
be legally found even if the front gates are closed because the
cache is not inside the fences.
Additional:
Yesterday was Geocaching 101 #18 by the St. Louis Area
Geocachers Association. Regretfully, I have never been to one of
these so I can only wonder if they teach about First to Finds
(FTFs) and what it takes to get a FTF. Feel free to post your FTF
advice to new cachers here.
Offering an alternative opinion, some might think it is best to
be Second to Find (STF) since no cache is easier to find than when
it is being held by another geocacher! Have Fun!
Congratulations and FTF honors to C3GPS
I noticed some of the FTF pros are posting some tips on how to
get or earn a FTF. One thing I haven't seen posted is to have a
premium geocaching.com account, and get email notifications on your
smart phone when a new cache is posted. I'm not exactly sure how
this works, but if you're lucky one day you'll be just two blocks
away from a newly posted cache when you get an email. Then you can
grab your FTF and meet fellow geocachers who arrive there
later.
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NOTICE: Please be
respectful of the posted park hours. If you enter the park after
hours you are trespassing. If you are stopped you can be ticketed
or arrested and will put the future of geocaching in the parks
in jeopardy. Special permission to
hide caches in St. Louis County parks is NOT needed as long as the
Groundspeak rules are followed. "Blanket Permission" has been
worked out in advance with the park service. DO NOT CALL THE PARK
as they cannot handle the calls. The Groundspeak cache reviewer
does need to know exactly how and where the caches are hidden and
what type of containers are used. The geocaching liaisons will
notify the park service of new caches. Remember NO AMMO BOXES or
PVC PIPE caches.
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