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Choo Choo #8: TMC Transit Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/15/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The purpose of this series is to ride Houston METRO rail, doing a cache at each stop.  You can, of course, do them without riding the rails, but then this series becomes a collection of pointless micros in meaningless locations.  The series runs from Reliant Park to Bell.

I don't care for nano containers so on this one i put a magnetic key holder somewhere. But, if you've found thirty caches you've probably run across these annoying bigger critters.  They're about the size of the palm of your hand.  If I were King of Caching I would require a crown for using them.   But, since they're so widely used and it seemed like the only practical way to do this series, I'm using them -- por favor, perdóname. 

Since the objective of this series is riding the rail, not finding the caches, I'm giving an explanation and pictures for each cache hoping to make them easy to find.  And, I haven't jammed in a full log so, hopefully, the logs are fairly easy to get it out and put it back.  Since the log is bigger, you can sign your name and date.

Initially the cache was where it's shown in the picture, but many cachers don't replace the container where they found it, so after a few finds there's no telling where it may be.  If you find it somewhere else please put it back where I had it originally. 

 I placed the caches going southbound but you can do the series going either north or south on Metrorail Red Line.  The SB or NB in the title indicates  whether they're closer to the northbound or southbound platforms.  If there's no SB or NB in the title it's a wash. 

During the week trains come every six minutes.  With one ticket you can get on and off the train at each station as long as you travel in the same direction and complete the trip within three hours. 

Assuming you do the series at one time please say in your log how long it took.  It took me four hours to put them out.   It may be possible to do them in three three hours, but you probably shouldn't dawdle.

All these descriptions started out the same except for the hints and pictures of the individual locations.  But, so I don't have to change all the cache pages if I modify the description, the most up-to-date description will be for Choo Choo Reliant

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svefg...svaq gur fgnghr bs gur anxrq crbcyr. Gura jnyx gb lbhe yrsg gbjneq gur bjy va gur tneqra. Lbh ner ybbxvat sbe n gnoyr arneol. Unir n frng. Frr gur cubgb nobir. Ybbx haqre gur gnoyr naq ernpu sbe n zntargvp xrl ubyqre va gur pragre. GUVF VF ABG N ANAB!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)