RBT3 - Give Me A Sign Mystery Cache
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Now that I have placed a few caches along the Minuteman Bike Path south of the Bedford Depot Park I decided to turn my sights west to the Reformatory Branch Trail. This is the third of several caches I have placed along that trail.
Reformatory Branch Trail (RBT)
The Boston & Maine Railroad’s Reformatory Branch was built in 1873 to Lowell Road in Concord and in 1879 it was continued 2.5 miles further west to Reformatory Station (across from the State Prison). There were four passenger stations on the line: Shady Hill, West Bedford, Concord and Reformatory. The branch was abandoned in 1962, and the right-of-way was purchased by Bedford and Concord. The trail is unimproved but it is still a good bike path. Along the way it skirts Great Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Cache
THIS IS A THREE PART CACHE!
The first stop is at a point where the railroad crossed a stream that feeds into Elm Brook. At the posted coordinates you will find a sign that reads:
ELM BROOK CONSERVATION AREA A COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION PROJECT BETWEEN BEDFORD CONSERVATION COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH OF MASS
There are a couple words missing in between COMMISSION and COMMONWEALTH, but you don’t have to worry about them. What you do have to worry about is trying to figure out how many words per line and how many lines (5 total) there are on the sign.
The first line is suppose to read "ELM BROOK CONSERVATION AREA". Some how I got away with an error in the puzzle for a year until fismo called me on it.
Use that sign to solve the following puzzle:
That puzzle will lead you to the second spot which is in an area nearby where you will have to search for a small tube (Think Dam Tube) that contains another puzzle that you can solve in the field.
That puzzle will lead you to the third part which is the final and it is placed in a nice, safe place. Hopefully it won’t get muggled.
Good luck and good caching,
Loch Cache
Congrats to OleSeeker on the FTF
When retrieving this final please pay close attention to how it is secured in place so you can return it to the proper place in such a way the lid won't pop open.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Puzzle One] bar-bar-bar=R
[Tube] jrqtrq va
[Puzzle Two] pbhag