Young's Point: Dangerous Blizzard Traditional Cache

n September 25^th, 1908, there was a high wind and the blizzard made it hard to see.  The rails were frozen by the blizzard.  At 7:58, there was a train going west that was too long for the siding at Young’s Point.  Engineer Smith tried to stop the train coming from the west.  The other train’s engineer didn’t see Smith’s until it was too late.  A railroad worker died.  Mason W.

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.