This cache is part of a series of caches that attempts to follow the abandoned Moe-Walhalla rail line, through what is now the Moondarra State Park. While there is no rail line to follow any more - it and the station buildings were removed in 1960 - there is plenty of evidence as to where this line used to be.
Parts of the track are pretty overgrown and others are subject to some pretty severe flooding, especially in the winter. In the summer, do not attempt on days of extreme bush fire and watch out for snakes!
The Moe-Walhalla was the last of the narrow gauge rail lines constructed in Victoria. Narrow gauge railroads were seen as a cheap way of linking remote communities, especially in hilly country. This particular line was commissioned to open up traffic to the township of Walhalla which, at the time, was one of the largest towns in Gippsland. Prior to this, the only way of getting stock to Walhalla was by bullock cart.
The rail line opened in 1910, but unfortunately the Walhalla Gold Mine closed in 1914. The residents began moving out of Walhalla in droves. The line picked up a bit of traffic from the local sawmills and a couple of local mines, but ultimately the usefulness of the line had finished and it was closed at Erica station in 1952, and the whole line was closed in 1954. The section from Walhalla to the old Thompson station has been re-opened as a tourist railway, and there are plans to open the line all the way down to the old Erica station.
In 1905, during the construction of the line, there was an uproar amongst land holders in the area around this cache. Not only was their land being compulsorily acquired by the railway commission, but for every stock crossing that they required to be placed along the line, they were to be charged 14 pounds! They were also to be charged an annual railway rate for the "benefit" of having the rail line either pass by, or through, their property.