Drive-in Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 An interesting development today for an Oklahoma history theme cache. The cache, 1906 Transportation disaster, is centered around a buried steam locomotive in the Cimarron river in Oklahoma. In 1906, the river flooded and washed out the bridge, causing a spectacular train derailment. As of today, March 5, 2004, the river has once again flooded and caused a derailment which was seen on the 6 pm national news (CBS). This time the derailment was approximately 3 miles south of the original derailment. The geocache, which is in a military ammo can, was chained in place to a railway car that was on the bank of the river from another spectacular flood in 1957. The status of the cache, is needless to say, unknown. It may have floated away, or be under several feet of mud. Read about it here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=22238 Quote Link to comment
+2qwerqE Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 That's some wild stuff. I have two friends who are avid train lover and collecors of old train stuff. I had to send them your cache link. Hope no one was hurt in today's wreck. Do you have a link to the news story? Quote Link to comment
+Alphatexana Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 The Washington Times has an article on it. Quote Link to comment
+Snideswipe Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Now that's some irony. Quote Link to comment
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