GCVM4N The Little Dinkie
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: ColMorgan @ | Hide Date: 04/23/2006 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 15.927 W103° 48.064 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 19
           

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This cache is located in Riverside Park in front of the Old Power Plant. Easy Walking. You may want to park in the parking lot.

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This cache pays homage to the lowly industrial locomotives called Dinkies. It was the affectionate name given by those who used them. They were used by the Great Western Sugar Company Refineries to move railroad cars filled with sugar beets. These little engines with their shrill whistle were used up until the 1980's at the Fort Morgan Factory. Today three of the little engines are on display in Fort Morgan making it the "Dinkie Capital of the World." Each of the GW Refineries had at least one of these engines. Most of the engines were were built by the Davenport Locomotive Works, Davenport Iowa. It weighs 20 Tons, has a tractive forces of 8500 pounds and could pull a maximum of 6 load cars. It was limited to that number because it had no air brakes so all of the breaking power was in the engine.

This cache is a magnetic key holder and has only a log. Bring a pen to sign the log. The locomotive is near a park so be careful of the omnipresent muggler. PLEASE RETURN THE CACHE TO IT'S ORIGINAL LOCATION

10/21/2018 By Papa Matthias
A beautiful day with friends. Fun find at a cool historical site.

10/21/2018 By JeepinMoreOns
TFTC! Thanks for the cool site!

10/13/2018 By ixelzenitram
Cool place! Thanks for the history and the cache :)

10/12/2018 By oz8118
Neat little cache, now I can say I know what a Dinkie is. And they sure are cute. ;) Based on the flavor text, I think of them as being a tugboat for a train. I am glad I stopped by here, even though it was getting late on a Friday night and there seemed to be a lot of traffic going by the side street. It was a nice little break for a long road trip from Nebraska. Luckily, I was able to grab the cache quickly and make it back home to Denver safely.

09/21/2018 By stormyjw
Fun with my son, thanks!

09/20/2018 By BirdsIView
Traveling from Cleveland to Denver for a wedding. Cashing and grabbing counties as we go by . New County in Colorado for us this trip. Love all the monarchs on the pretty blue flowers.

09/10/2018 By Anders0n6
Last time here had to stop looking as son was throwing up. This time we made the find. Great hide. TFTC. SL.

09/08/2018 By The Leprechauns
I found your cache as part of Team Irish Gold's Epic Roadtrip (or "TIGER"), a 3800 mile journey from my home in Pittsburgh to visit my daughter at her new home in Boulder. The drive was fun because of the great company of Goldilocks, the other half of Team Irish Gold. Along the way we found geocaches in 73 counties within eight states - with NO DNF's!

Today we began heading home after four great days in Colorado, ending the day in Junction City, Kansas. Along the way, we colored in new counties on our map and found additional high quality caches in counties we'd visited during the trip out. We stopped here to score a find in Morgan County. We chose well, as we enjoyed the setting and the history you shared. I scored the find pretty quickly as a hummingbird flitted amongst the nearby flower bed, and as Goldilocks flitted around the Little Dinkie. Thanks, ColMorgan, for hiding and maintaining this cache!

09/08/2018 By masterfind
Very nice. TFTC

09/03/2018 By SamAnBecky
Found

09/02/2018 By Firemnky
On a Fall trip through Colorado doing some caching and seeing the sites. A beautiful scenic drive through Rocky Mountain National Park. Visiting the downtown areas of Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs to name a few. We enjoyed a beautiful hike on the Barr trail at the Summit of Pikes Peak. It was a wonderful trip with quite a bit of caching thrown in along the way. Thanks to all the CO's for all the caches along the way.

09/01/2018 By Sapper489
Kiddos love this little train, TFTC Sapper489

08/19/2018 By geordons
A fun cache in great condition.
TFTC

08/17/2018 By DaSportsBabe
Found it with C@$heMon £¥. Took a while. Passing through going to Buffalo Bills Ranch in North Platte, NE. Interesting metal art. Cool spot. It gets a favorite point from me.
GCVM4N

08/17/2018 By C@$heMon€Y
Tftf choo choo

08/13/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
My spirits shrank when I saw the beacon: another one of those. I occasionally make a quick find, especially if the container is fairly large and/or there is a good hint, but neither was the case here and I felt that I was looking for a D3 or higher hide. I made one complete circuit and then gave up; too much work and too little fun. TFTC anyway.

08/12/2018 By UNDERTAKER54ANDWIFE
An interesting place enjoyed it thanks
GCVM4N

08/12/2018 By UNDERTAKER54ANDWIFE
Found and signed log TFTC interesting story

08/05/2018 By jayging
Tftc

07/13/2018 By markens
Cool spot! Found the cache in the first spot I checked, thanks.

07/12/2018 By tc54915
Chasing the oldies with AJPerla from Wisconsin. Grabbed a few others along the way in beautiful weather in the 60s. After getting 2 feet of snow last week--this was a blessing to be able to see the ground and find the caches, TFTC and keeping these alive!! Answers submitted by AJPERLA

06/20/2018 By Zaphod-Eh
heading eastwards towards home in Ontario, and finding a few caches alone the route. TFTC