GC1TTYV Hub City Time Machine
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: fsafranek @ | Hide Date: 06/16/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 15.657 W103° 41.148 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Hub City History

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Limon, Colorado has its roots in the railroad.  In 1888, Limon got its start as a work camp for the new Chicago and Rock Island rail line (part of the the CRIP line if you play Rail Baron board game), destined to run from Kansas to Colorado Springs. Limon was named after one of the railroad's original construction foreman. This cache will take you for a short walk though the outdoor exhibits and park of the town's railroad and frontier museum area.  All of the answers are found outdoors among the exhibits so you can do this even when the nearby museums are closed.  You'll be looking at exhibits to find the answers to the missing parts of these coordinates to find the final cache location: N 39*15.BAC W 103*41.DEF To start off, parking is available at the published cache coordinates: N39*15.657 W103*41.148 A) Note the first number of the address on the "Exhibit Building" sign where you parked.  Take away 1 from that first digit for the value of "A". If the Exhibit Building is open have a look inside.  Otherwise walk past the statue and down the ramp towards the farm equipment and railroad exhibits. B) As you walk along you'll see a railroad exhibit of a brown snow plow engine (it used to be silver with different numbers and there were two yellow passenger cars and one blue passenger car attached).  What is the first digit of the serial number on the side of the brown snow plow engine minus 3? Turn west (to your right) facing the Depot Building and a red fuel truck in the distance and walk on the road between the train mentioned above and the various historical farm equipment.  Aim towards the Depot Building. C) On the side of the Depot Building facing you is a red door and above it a sign with the elevation of Limon.  Note the second and third digits (5 _ _ 6)?  Add them together to get the value of C. F) In this same area is a restored yellow Union Pacific caboose.  On the side closest to you is an exhibit of several railroad warning signs.  One is a standard flashing red railroad crossing signal used to warn cars.  The sign on it reads, "EXEMPT" and below that, how many tracks?  Subtract that number from "C" above to get the value for "F". Walk around the front of the Depot Building towards the red fuel truck. D) On the Depot Building is a sign advertising the "Twilight Limited Train Rides" that were available several years ago.  These were short train rides with dinner and live musical entertainment.  Including the beginning and ending years, for how many years was this service available?  This is not a subtraction problem. :-) If the Depot Museum building is open (Memorial Day to Labor Day) have a look inside.  They have a neat model train exhibit and arrowhead collection.  Otherwise, continue walking west around the red fuel truck you saw earlier and towards the School House and playground/park beyond. E) Last one.  For the original cache location you had to count the windmills.  Interesting to look at since they are all a little different.  For the new cache location find the metal train kids can play on near the street and count the small wheels on one side.  Divide that number by 2 for the value of "E". That's it.  Using the above answers plug in the missing parts of the coordinates and go find that cache.  You might already be there. The cache is located on site at: N 39*15.ABC W 103*41.DEF Checksum: N 39 W 22 Congrats to Witz, KB, 3 Pirates, Team Abunai, Inc., and Team Cosmoasu for Co-FTF on July 3rd and to kyotmoon for a valiant effort.

Additional Waypoints

P11TTYV - Preferred Parking Area
N 39° 15.657 W 103° 41.148
Initial parking area

06/24/2019 By LostinDenver
Today I hooked up with @WindAtMyBack and @2lablovers to load up our covered wagon and head east. My covered wagon is a newer model, the FJ Cruiser made by Toyota. From Aurora we headed toward Limon and then migrated south and further east. It was a productive day. We managed to avoid bad weather (only a little sprinkling). Along the way we saw at least 15 hawks, a burrowing owl den, a burrowing owl, many other types of birds and one snake. Unfortunately this bullsnake crossed the road at the same time as a vehicle and we only found him lying there, motionless. We also checked out Arroyo, a ghost town. We also saw a bunch of prairie dogs, and most importantly, lots of caches! We found 38 out here and had a great time. Before ending our day we had visited Hugo, Limon, Boyero, and Bennett. Thanks for the fun!
I came out here more than a year ago with my daughter and we attempted this mystery. After gathering the info, we searched but were unable to find the final. Then, I planned on grabbing it on my way out to Geowoodstock in Ohio, but we weren't able to stop here. So today, we finally made it back.
Luckily I had a TOTT (the shorter half of 2LL) with me and she spotted the container, shoving the taller 2LL out of the way to make the find :) Good times! TFTC!

06/24/2019 By WindAtMyBack
TFTC

05/13/2019 By car0less
TFTC! We went down and after eating supper and found the 6 digits. We went back motel, entered the coordinates on the Oregon before going back for a quick park and grab about 6:20 this evening.

05/04/2019 By fsafranek
Checking on my caches while visiting family out here.
This one is in good shape with lots of space for log entries.
Cache On!

11/20/2018 By fearthefish
Walked around and saw the sights with my daughter It's A Small World today. We made all the required stops and our numbers agreed with the check sums. Unfortunately there were Muggles doing work right next to the final so we couldn't do a thorough search. We will try again another time.

09/02/2018 By qrang
Unfortunately the museum was closed but we enjoyed walking around the gardens collecting the clue - we particularly liked the snow plough - cache soon spotted many thanks and have a fav point

07/01/2018 By NakedNHappyHunter
With the over abundance of mosquitoes we passed on this one.

05/24/2018 By fsafranek
Walked through the puzzle to make sure it all works. Won't change the hint but will add one here for people who read. If at the final waypoint location you are there. Cache On!

05/23/2018 By LostinDenver
After making multiple mistakes in our calculations we've decided to continue onto geowoodstock then come back and retry this one again.

05/18/2018 By saw boy
The weather was not to promising as Taw and I approached Limon this morning while heading west. It was foggy with mist in the air and threatening to rain but the last two quit as we got to the cache site. My the time we left the fog had started to lift. We enjoyed walking around, looking at the various equipment, and gathering the data. Once we had the information in hand we plugged the numbers in and started looking for the cache AND struck out. We went back over the info we had collected and soon found a DUMB mistake we had make. Corrected the final coordinates and soon had the cache in hand. Got a FTS (first to sign) on the new log. Thanks for bringing us here and we wish we could have spent more time in the area.