Travel Bug Dog Tag Rusty Spike

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, January 20, 2003
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

The Rusty Spike wants to travel the country, visiting railroad yards, railroad museums and other areas of railroad history. It would also like to meet up with its cousin, The Golden Spike, near Promontory Point, Utah, at the Golden Spike National Historic Site. This guy is really getting a workout too. Let's hope he continues his travels. Here's where he's been so far.

About This Item

The Rusty Spike

The Rusty Spike was forced to stay in one spot for many years, while watching trains travel by, taking goods and people to places unknown. Now that the Rusty Spike has been freed from its earthly bounds, it too, wants to travel far and wide.

The Rusty Spike wants to travel from cache to cache having it's picture taken next to locomotive engines, railroad yards, railroad museums, and railroad historic sites.

Traveling by rail to other caches would be a dream come true for the Rusty Spike. It has always wanted to take a ride on the Reading Railroad, or take the trip from Durango to Silverton in Colorado. Meeting its cousin, the Golden Spike in Utah, would be a highlight as well.

The Rusty Spike has no itinerary, but will rely on the cache hunter to come up with new and interesting adventures for it to take. With this Travel Bug, the journey is the goal.

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Tracking History (10912.6mi) View Map

Dropped Off 7/10/2005 trini placed it in Alpha Arizona - 391.84 miles  Visit Log
Write note 4/3/2005 trini posted a note for it   Visit Log

We went to take some pictures of Rusty Spike at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum and them drop him off at Mistletoe and Mesquites, but had problems with the second part. Will try and drop elsewhere soon.

  • Beside the Southern Pacific 1673 At the Southern Arizona Transportation Musem they've got the Southern Pacific 1673 engine. The area was closed when we went, but Spike got closer than we did.
  • View from the front
Dropped Off 12/30/2004 trini placed it in White's City Madness (a.k.a. The Phantom Bathroom) New Mexico - 769.92 miles  Visit Log

milage fix
Write note 12/29/2004 Jack&Bev posted a note for it   Visit Log

We dropped this one in Whites City Madness on our way home to California from Christmas Break. Didn't get to log it before it moved again.
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/4/2004 Jack&Bev retrieved it from 2650 or bust California   Visit Log

Someone must have cleaned up the "Spike". It sure looks better now than in the picture.

Dropped Off 10/16/2004 Webfoot placed it in 2650 or bust California - 20.34 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/15/2004 Webfoot grabbed it   Visit Log

Putting the copy tag on another Rusty Spike and sending it forth, since the original seems to have been "Spikenapped", never to be ransomed off.
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/31/2003 Oyama retrieved it from Railroad Spike Cache California   Visit Log

Looking for a good place for this spike. I hope to find one soon.

        Oyama
Dropped Off 4/12/2003 www.wheresgeorge.com placed it in Railroad Spike Cache California - 14.8 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/21/2003 www.wheresgeorge.com grabbed it   Visit Log

dropped off marco polo after not being able to find him a home near LAX and took this TB in return.......will take him somewhere good.
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