FCHT01 All Aboard Traditional Cache

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Backwoods Reviewer: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.

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Hidden : 1/4/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Welcome to the Fairfield County History Geo Trail - Our trail will take you all over Fairfield County to many of our small historic towns that make up this great county. We hope you have fun and experience all our county has to offer.

The Hocking valley Railway ran from Toledo to Athens and Pomeroy via Columbus and had several branches to the Coal mines of Hocking Valley as well. Mineral Railroad was incorporated in April 1864 to build from Athens to Columbus. The company changed its name to the Columbus and Hocking Valley Railroad in June of 1867. After Construction began at Columbus the line was opened from Columbus to Lancaster in 1869, Logan in August of 1869, Nelsonville in September of 1869 and Athens in July of 1870.

This caboose most likely traveled these lines for many years and was purchased from the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway Depot in Nelsonville in 2004. It serves as their welcome center and museum for Sugar Grove, Ohio.

Cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train. Until the 1980s, laws in the United States and Canada required all freight trains to have a caboose and a full crew, for safety. Technology eventually advanced such that the railroads, in an effort to save money and reduce crew members, stated that a caboose was unnecessary and their use has since declined; they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.




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Caches on the Trail
FCHT01 All Aboard
FCHT02 HAS
FCHT03 Deep Cut
FCHT04 Smeck Farm
FCHT05 A Memorial
FCHT06 Rock Mill
FCHT07 Cump
FCHT08 Lockville
FCHT09 O & E Canal
FCHT10 Oil Boom
FCHT11 Crossroads and Fence Corners
FCHT12 StonewallED
FCHT13 Writing on the Wall
FCHT14 The Junction
FCHT15 AMA HOF

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