Jack's D.U.R. #2 Traditional Cache
jack3689: Cache has been destroyed
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Micro cache located along the old abandoned D.U.R. railroad.
Cache is located along the long forgotten D.U.R. (Detroit United Railway) railroad bed. The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally built by different companies, the were consolidated under the control of the Everett-Moore syndicate, a Cleveland-based group of investors. The company incorporated on December 31, 1900, and continued to expand into the early 1920s through new construction and the acquisition of smaller concerns. After the DUR acquired the Detroit-Jackson line in 1907, it operated more that 400 miles (640 km) of interurban lines and 187 miles (301 km) of street city street railway lines. By 1900 an all electric powered passenger rail line known as the Detroit United Railway (D.U.R.) was extended through Ortonville and Oxford from Detroit to Flint and was noted for maintaining limited cars daily, both north and southbound. Over the years, the D.U.R. was involved in many collisions with automobiles, often resulting in death or injury to those whose automobiles tangled with the interurban cars at grade crossings. As automobile transportation became more reliable and roads improved, a growing percentage of the populace chose to travel by these means, forcing the demise of the D.U.R. in 1931.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
1) 1fg Cbjre Cbyr