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Build me a wagon Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/11/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Simple hide to tempt you into the countryside where industry meets rural lifestyle


Everything old is new again

This is a simple hide but the atmosphere is electrifying beside this small sub station installed to supply industrial power to the neighbouring engineering workshop formerly ANI Ruwolt now just Bradken.

1986 ANI Ruwolt moved to the site relocating from the Vickers Scotts fabrication premises at West Ipswich providing heavy fabrication, machining, fitting and engineering solutions to the mining industry manufacturing.

Buckets for the large mining dump trucks were fabricated whilst access to the rail line allowed large scale production of iron ore wagons to delivered by rail to mines all over the country. In later years coal wagons were manufactured for the expandeding Queensland industry. Even body components for armoured personnel carriers for the military and heavy artillery have been fabricated here. Company takeovers and restructures have happened over time resulting in the Bradken name and downsizing of the workforce but rows of rolling stock wheels can still be seen.

Stealth may be required at some times of the day, your own writing stick is necessary and care needs to be taken due to the delicacy of the cache container and surrounds bushland.

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