I named my cache after the train wreck at Young’s Point. It was blizzarding when the crash happened. Twenty-one men died. Twenty died in a smoker car and the other one died because he hit his head on the railing. The trains would have gone on fire if it wasn’t for a man who moved the charcoal in a safe place.--Raquel H
One of the objectives of our geocaching unit in fifth grade is to acquaint students with local history they may not have had an opportunity to hear or read about. Taken from James O. Southworth’s The Road Taken, the students learned of the most disastrous train wreck in Montana history, the 1908 wreck at Young’s Point, 4 1/2 miles west of Park City, The students selected the name of their cache and wrote an on-line introduction for it (see above), keeping in mind that they needed to take seriously their role in promoting local history
The cache above happened to be turned later than our actual planting trip. The planting trip itself was amazing; so many things that could have hampered our efforts (for instance, the heavy rain on the day we originally scheduled the plant) turned out for the best. Because of the state golfers taking the school van, I ended up taking a full-size bus that commanded the respect of on-coming traffic and a bus driver who loved the assignment so much he asked to be able to plant the final cache of the 22 planted (we complied).