Oh, but that I had the time that some people
have, that I could just go wander through our great state and
country and even planet, looking for tupperware signposts that have
been left out just for me....
-- WalruZ, 3/6/06
Inspired by the idea of "Tupperware Signposts", I inaugurate
this series with "RR Xing". Every one of them will be a full-size
(with maybe one or two exceptions 
)
tupperware, dedicated to someone in the local caching community as
a present for their kindness to me personally.
This first one is dedicated to WalruZ, for
inspiring it, though I suspect budd-rdc and
salewit
may like it too.
In fact, if you're a local railhead, you should visit salewit's
Bay Area Rail Fan
site.
I found this site while I was looking for a couple of nearby
caches. Here's a little info about it:
Backtracking about a mile on Moraga through downtown
past the theater and around the corner from the Casa Orinda
restaurant (itself a venerable Orinda fixture for many decades),
you'll encounter a much smaller structure on a triangle of land
adjacent to the Highway 24 entrance at Bates Boulevard. A plaque in
front identifies it as the old DeLaveaga Station, part of that same
narrow-gauge railway that once hauled picnickers, bales of hay,
farm produce and supplies between Emeryville and Orinda, until
winter storms and financial difficulties derailed the whole
operation in 1904. Originally located just north of the trestle on
Miner Road, where the 12th fairway of the Orinda Country Club is
now, it was moved to the DeLaveaga family's estate on Miner Road in
1921 and then donated in 1998 to the city, which moved it, with a
bit of fanfare, to its current site in February 2000.
-
Contra Costa Times, 08/01/2002, "Tiny Orinda holds cache of
jewels"
This tiny whistle-stop is a registered historic landmark. Peek
in the windows to see a little of what it looked like, back in the
day. Walk around a little, and (if you hate evil micros) be
thankful that I didn't do an evil micro under the rails of the
adjacent decorative fragment of railway, like the evil micro I
found at "the end of the line" in Kansas.
If you can keep trades in theme, I'd sure be happy. And even
Geo
Baby can come find this one!