GC2CWCZ Traditional Cache DSP&P South of Fairplay
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 08/06/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 10.421 W105° 57.217 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
The cache is a 35mm container. It is not winter friendly.

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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.

This is cache is located at the most prominent road crossing of Hwy 9 by the old railline. When the rails were laid, this highway was nothing like it is now. It most probably was a dirt track. At this point the passengers would have been gathering together their belongings if they were going to depart when the train reached Fairplay. The railroad grade is marked by a string of power poles.
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11 Logs: Found it 11  

Found it 06/30/2019 By CorMilFam
Expansive views out here! TFTC!

Found it 04/28/2019 By GlenbysGals

Found it 10/24/2018 By ngrrfan
Tftc

Found it 10/24/2018 By RedV2
TFTC

Found it 09/28/2018 By Rubicon Cacher
We found the cache quickly and signed the log. Thanks for the railroad history, the cache and the smiley.

Found it 08/28/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
This is another fine hide in the series; good job and TFTC!

Found it 08/19/2018 By Arbuckle35
Love these caches! Thanks for the history!!!! TFTC. SL.

Found it 08/08/2018 By celticrott
good hide

Found it 08/06/2018 By TheHuntingHuffs
Third find of the day for us, second one heading south on 9 on our way home. Fairly uneventful fine, except for the fact that a highway patrolman saw me on the side of the road and decided to turn around and make sure everything was okay. He was cool though don't know if he knows about geocaching or not but he just nodded and said okay just making sure. LOL heading south, thanks for the hide!
TheHuntingHuffs
Cutty's Resort
Coaldale, CO

Found it 07/18/2018 By sibila77
Thank you for history! Cache is good condition. Detour = Traffic..
Dekuji za peknou historii.

Found it 12/04/2017 By Rohatx
Made a fast grab as the temperature was plummeting. Thank you for the placement!