GC1PX7K M & NA Lesile Depot (Traditional Cache) in Arkansas, United States created by B62GTAWK

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Chuck Walla: Hello B62GTAWK,

Geocaching HQ flagged this cache as one that may need attention and sent you an email about it. Some time after that, I disabled your cache and requested that you check on your cache and perform any necessary maintenance. Since you have not responded to my reviewer log about your cache by posting a note to your cache page to tell me and others of your intention to address the issue with it, the cache has been archived at the direction of Geocaching HQ.

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Hidden : 4/11/2009

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Lesile Depot Present Day

Dinky Line
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Continuing on the M & NA series created by frankwim. I couldn't pass this find up with the old depot still being entact here in the lumber yard. While at ground zero look across the street and there she will be in all her beauty.
There is no record of a celebration of the arrival of the tracks at Leslie, but regular train service was started on Sept. 11, 1903. It was the St Loius & North Ark at that time and extended to Seligman, MO. Leslie had until a few years before been known as the village of Wiley's Cove, but had incorporated in 1902 and could now look forward to becoming an important point on the railroad. There was an engine shed, shop building, yard tracks and a wye built. The orginal plan was to take the track from Leslie to Little Rock which would require traversing serious terrain at a high expense. Trackage rights would also be require from the existing line from Conway to Little Rock. The decision (some say a fatal decision) was to take the line to a point on the Mississippi. The H.D. Williams Cooperage Co had completed its move from Poplar Bluff, MO to Leslie in 1908, and by 1910 was claimed to be the largest cooperage works in the world. It could produce up to 3000 oil barrels daily and regularly shipped several carloads per day of wine barrel shooks for export to France. They built their own 19 mile standard gauge railroad (called the "Dinky Line" to reach timber leases to the east. The M &NA was always plagued with labor and finacial problems. On the evening of Nov. 26, 1912, at about 8:00PM, fire was discovered in the William Cooperage plant. Only the company office building and the boiler house survived. A portion was rebuilt in 1913. Thanks for the information frankwim...

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M & NA Lesile Depot Traditional Cache

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