GC2CWE7 Traditional Cache DSP&P Alma Branch
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 08/04/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 15.482 W106° 02.366 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Available at all times  Not Available during winter  Parking available  Bicycles  Motorcycles 
The cache is a 35mm container. It is winter friendly.
This is one of the caches in a series of caches dedicated to Fallen Flag railroads. Fallen Flags are those railroads that no longer exist either through abandonment or corporate takeover. With each cache will come a short history lesson explaining a little something about the railroad.

DSP&P are the initials of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific railroad. It was a narrow gauge line (3’ between the rails) that started life in Denver in 1874 and was headed to the mining camps in the mountains.

The Alma Branch as it was called, might seem more correctly named the Fairplay Branch but such was not the case in 1881-82. At that time Fairplay had been producing ore for some time but Alma had come on strong and was promising to produce even more. But sometimes things don't turn out quite as well as we had hoped. Today Alma is a small community while Fairplay has surpassed it. This branch was abandoned in 1936 when the mines played out and the need for the railroad was greatly diminished.
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7 Logs: Found it 7  

Found it 09/08/2018 By k9jayhawk
Fall caching with Psych01 in the South Park area....TFTC SL

Found it 09/03/2018 By alohaBADA
Made it harder than necessary! Tftc!

Found it 08/26/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
This was a QEF for me; my GPSr led me straight to the proper beacon and the hang place was quite obvious there; good job and TFTC!

Found it 08/23/2018 By psych01
TFTC. SL. all is well at this location.

Found it 08/01/2018 By intpbob
Easy find.

Found it 07/26/2018 By Greasepot
Finally getting around to logging this one.

Found it 07/21/2018 By robespierre50
Kind of a cache numbers/high temperature escape day for me up to Fairplay area. Starting to get more interested in these RR histories, and associated caches. sl thanks