The Salem, Falls City & Western was a Railroad the linked the two aforementioned cities in the Willamette Valley. The cache is not located at the posted coordinates, although the railroad did run right down the middle of Second Street NW. You can see it going thru the industrial area to the east. The cache final is not that far away.
To find the final, you must complete the Salem, Falls City Western Railway Trail Adventure lab. At each AL Waypoint, it will give you part of the final waypoint coordinates once that waypoint is successfully completed.. The final coordinates are N44 56.ABC W123 03.DED
The Railroad was formed in 1901 by Louis Gerlinger, Sr. and Charles Spaulding. The railroad opened between Dallas and Falls City in 1903. By 1905 it was extended further west to Black Rock to tap all the timberlands out there. The Southern Pacific assumed operation of the railroad in 1907. In 1909 the line reached the banks of the Willamette River where ferries reached Salem. In 1913 the Railroad Bridge (a vertical lift bridge) opened finally linking the railroad to Salem and the SP mainline via tracks down the middle of Union Street.
The line declined in the 1960s, and most was abandoned by the 1970s except the line from Dallas to Gerlinger, and the industrial area in West Salem. The last train from West Salem across the bridge occurred in the early 1990s. The line from Gerlinger to Dallas remains. Today the RR bridge is a pedestrian path. Much of the old right-of-way remains heading west. Down Second st in West Salem, then paralleling Edgewater, and later Hwy 22 thru Eola.