Silver Streak Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/28/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Diabetic container



Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book on Rembrandt.



George sees a dead body dangling outside the window and then falling away. But he is drunk and Hilly insists he must have imagined it. In the morning, he sees Schreiner's book, with the author's photo: he was the dead man. Inside the book is an envelope.

Schreiner's killers are Johnson (Gierasch), Whiney (Walston), and Reace (Kiel). George goes to Schreiner's room, and Reace throws him off the train. George meets a farmer (Benson) and they overtake the train in her biplane.

George sees Hilly with Johnson (who is impersonating Schreiner), Whiney, and art dealer Devereau (McGoohan) who is holding Hilly as a secret hostage . Devereau apologizes to George for the "misunderstanding" involving Reace. After mentioning "the Rembrandt letters", Johnson says he will return to his room for a glass of scotch.

George goes to the club car and begins drinking heavily, confiding in Sweet about his misadventure. Sweet reveals himself as an undercover FBI agent named Stevens. He confirms George's suspicions: the real Schreiner did not drink alcohol. Devereau is a criminal who passes himself off as an art expert, and Whiney, Reace, and Johnson work for him. His plan is to have Johnson, disguised as Scheiner, discredit the book that exposes Devereau for authenticating two forgeries as original Rembrandts. They find the envelope George saw. It contains letters written by Rembrandt, proving Devereau's guilt. But then Reace kills Stevens and goes after George. Their fight ends on the roof, where George kills Reace but is knocked to the ground by an overhanging signal.

On foot again, George finds the local sheriff (James), but is accused of murdering Stevens. He escapes, stealing a patrol car which was transporting thief Grover T. Muldoon (Pryor). George and Grover work together to reach the train at Kansas City. Grover disguises George as a black man and he gets by police and reboards the train.

George is captured, but he and Hilly are rescued from Devereau's room by Grover, disguised as a steward. After a shootout, George and Grover jump off the train and are arrested and taken to a train station, where federal agent Donaldson (Birman) explains that he planted the Stevens murder story to protect George. Donaldson tells George that Devereaux is already under suspicion in another case. George tells Donaldson about Devereau's plan, and Donaldson arranges for the train to be stopped by his men. Meanwhile, Devereau burns the Rembrandt letters.

Once the train has stopped and the passengers are off, another shootout ensues. George boards the train a fourth time, with Grover, as Devereau climbs onto the locomotive and orders the engineer to start moving. An agent shoots Whiney, George shoots Johnson, and Devereau shoots the engineer and places a toolbox on the dead man's brake pedal. Devereau is then shot by Donaldson, falls halfway out of the engine cabin, and is hit by an oncoming train.

Devereau and his men are gone, but with no one alive on the locomotive and the pedal depressed, the train is running away. Devereau's men had also disabled the emergency brakes. With the help of a steward (Crothers), George uncouples the passenger cars from the engine. The engine roars into the station, smashes through the end-of-track barrier, and into the terminal, spectacularly destroying everything in its path. In the confused aftermath, Grover steals a sports car that had been displayed in the terminal and drives away, and George and Hilly leave together.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abg ba cevingr cebcregl

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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