RR Knutz: Fredericksburg Traditional Cache
Hidden : 1/9/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Visit the historic town of Fredericksburg! And find one of the
geocaches in the Railroad Knutz series while you are there!!

If you live in the Fredericksburg region or if you have visited the town before, you likely know about the train station, but you likely didn't know that there are actually two. Neither are still in use as stations and both presently house restaurants. The better known station houses The Bavarian Chef and is right beside the platform where CSX freights rumble by and where Amtrak passenger trains and Virginia Railway Express commuter trains pick up and drop off riders.

But just a block to the west along Lafayette Boulevard is the depot of the former Virginia Central Railway. This depot now houses Colonial Tavern and is the site of this cache.

Please be sure to stop into the tavern before or after finding the cache, not only for a great meal while you sit and watch the trains roll by, but also to check out the memorabilia on the walls related to the former life of this historic building.


Started in 1857 and completed in 1877, a 38 mile railway was laid between the towns of Fredericksburg and Orange in the Piedmont of central Virginia which eventually came to be called the Virginia Central Railway and operated until its abandonment in 1984. For more information about the history of this railway and plans for its re-development as a public greenway, please go to Virginia Central Railway Trail.

This cache is part of the Railroad Knutz series by the Cachew Knutz. For information about the series and the fabulous golden spike for the first to find the whole series, please check out the ultimate cache in the series, RR Knutz: The Golden Spike.

There are many geocaches in the town of Fredericksburg, but two of the favorites of the Cachew Knutz happen to both be just an easy walk from this one. They are The Mosaic Mural Micro and “64”. Please check them out if you haven’t already had the pleasure.

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