Ottawa and N.Y. railway Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/6/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A nice walk down a dirt trail that used to be a railroad track.The cache is an ammo container and is easy to locate.

Congratulations to GunnerMac on the F.T.F.

Before the turn of the century, businesses and communities were prospering through the use of the newest technology which enabled goods and people to be transported safely and quickly between towns, cities and even countries. The train was king and reigned supreme. On Aug 14, 1896 the Ottawa and New York Company set their engineers to work mapping out a rail route from Ottawa to Cornwall which was to join to the Hudson and Delaware system. At 7:45am, Friday the 29th of July 1898, the “New Yorker” left Cornwall for the first trip on the line. As it made its winding way, it passed through the “Flag Station” at Crysler over the proud iron bridge that spanned the South Nation River. Sometime in the 1940,s the great steam beast was replaced by diesel engines which later proved to be the first signal of demise, of the NEW York Line. By 1942 only one train ran daily and by 1957 the last freight train made its final run from Ottawa to Cornwall. Enjoy the walk down memory lane

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