Johnny Cash Cache Traditional Cache
Itchy and Scratchy: Getting out of the hiding part for a while. Will pick up containor and log soon. If someone gets to it before me go ahead and log your find and take the containor with you. Thanks.
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Cache is located near a small park overlooking the old train station. No trespassing is allowed on the tracks or in the vacinity of the old rail station itself. Please stay on the bike trail.
This cache is a tribute to Johnny Cash. Because of his love of trains, and his songs about them, like the Orange Blossom Special and Folsom Prison Blues, I thought it was only appropriate to create a cache near the former location of the Bloomington stop of the C and A railroad. The location of the micro-cache offers a wonderful view of the railroad yard, old depot and surrounding area.
Here is a bit of history about the cache location taken from a Bloomington Pantagraph news article: The first railroad to reach Bloomington was the Illinois Central in 1853. This railroad, linking Chicago and Cairo, created a transportation corridor that opened the fertile farmland of Central Illinois to markets in Chicago. About the same time, the Alton & Sangamon Railroad -- also known to some as the Chicago & St. Louis and later renamed the Chicago & Alton -- linking Chicago and St. Louis also was laid near Bloomington. By the early 1900’s, the city would be a junction for two more lines, the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western (now Conrail) and the Lake Erie & Western (now Norfolk Southern).
The shops, on more than 60 acres on Bloomington's northwest side, were opened to manufacture the parts needed to keep the rail line operating. In 1857, they began production of George Pullman's rail sleeping car. The shops also built the first Pullman dining car and in the 1880s began custom-building locomotives.
Today a very small park with access to Constitution trail occupies part of this area. Street parking is available within a few hundred feet of the cache. So as you head down constitution trail and are looking for the cache and wondering where it could be, just start singing the immortal words “I hear the train a comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.” Could there be a clue in these words? I am not saying there is or is not, but I hope you enjoy the hunt. Is it a lunchtime cache? I guess it depends on how good a geo-cacher you are and how long of lunch break you get. Please bring your own pencil.
Please let me know how I did on this one. My last one seemed much to easy for most and I hoped to make this one more challenging.
Note: For extra geocaching points, please upload your own pictures of the site. Hopefully with some trains in view.
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