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Young's Point: Killer Train Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/12/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Best to leave this one for a sunny day; rain makes the road bed slick gumbo. "In 1908 there was a tragedy at Park City, Montana.  Twenty trains are coming opposite directions.  One car is not able to fit on the side rail and the engineer of the passenger train does not see the car until it’s too late . . . 21 die."

Cherish B.


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.

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