Many of you around Atlanta have been to the Silver Comet Trail. If you have done some of my caches you may have done one that is near it. How many of you have been to the old beginning of the Comet Trail?
If you have been to the beginning of the trail, then you have been near the end of the old rail line... well sort of that is. This cache will take you to what was "The End of the Line". Don't worry about seeing any trains. You will see why when you get near the final cache location. By visiting my cache you can see the rusty rails and rotting railroad ties of an old railway. You will also cross a marvel of engineering as you go down the old railway to the cache from the parking area. Notice the steep sides! They had to do something with the dirt from the cut in the mountain ahead of you as you walk to the cache. They also had to get some dirt from somewhere else (I would guess) based on the height of the line compared to the valley on each side of you.
This is less than a mile hike overall, but the cache is pretty well hidden to keep it from being taken. It is the size of a single sized sandwich container. It is slightly larger than the average micro cache, but is small so bring small items. You can park next to the first clue in a legal parking lot. Do NOT park in the duplex areas. If you get towed you deserve it.
At the first location you will find a small bathroom building. Use these clues about the building to fill in the blanks to find the final cache location.
N 33° 50.3BA
W 84° 30.ABC
"A" is equal to the number of roof support cross members along the back of the building above the electrical boxes.
"B" is equal to the number of roof support cross members along either side of the building.
"C" is equal to the number of large vertical square posts that hold up the main front roof overhang.
Enjoy your walk from here.
Good luck and have fun around the cache area.
UPDATE! Recent construction in the area has brought a paved path almost all the way to the cache. They are extending the Comet Trail out and you will be walking on the new Comet Extension Trail and joining up with the Atlanta BeltLine Trail!