Victorian Railway Traditional Cache

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kildonan61: Well I couldn't find it. The hiding spot has been trashed, and if the cache is amongst all the garbage that's blown/washed in here I don't feel like looking for it. Another hide along this old railway would have to be something completely different (a micro probably) so it's time to let this listing go. It's had a very good run.

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Hidden : 5/17/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

My first "real" hide, hidden Victoria Day weekend 2008. Where the trains ran during her reign.

Small camo'd container with logsheet (thanks MBGA!), pencil, and some trading items. This cache is located in a very obscure railway-turned-"park" that has a long history. If you wanted to take a CP Rail train across Canada during the latter part of Queen Victoria's reign, you passed through here. In those days the railway crossed the Red River at the Louise Bridge (named after one of Victoria's daughters), and trains travelled along where Stadacona and Levis Streets are today. Trains heading east of Winnipeg travelled past the cache location to join up with the rail line that first took them to East Selkirk before heading towards Ontario. (The former rail line to East Selkirk is not obscure at all, it's recently been converted into a walking/cycling pathway - the Northeast Pioneers Greenway.) Trains heading south into the U.S. came over the bridge then arced along another rail bed that's still there today, south of the Chalmers Community Centre. The year was 1881 when the trains started running over the bridge and through this area.

A few years after Victoria's death the CP mainline was diverted to the Molson cut-off and a new bridge just upstream from Louise. The Louise Bridge no longer handled rail traffic and was replaced a few years later. The old rail spurs on either side remained for a while (Sutherland Avenue still has old track embedded in it), but I don't know exactly when the tracks were torn up by the cache.

If you walk along the old railbed in a general east direction, eventually you'll smack into a chainlink fence. This is the old boundary between the Parishes of St. John's (where the cache is) and Kildonan. Given my caching name, I'm not proud about how they're using the old rail line on the other side of the fence.

Congrats to Chewys on being FTF!

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