3000th Sense Traditional Cache
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A Mixed metaphor and a 4-8-4
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
A group of Philadelphia area railroad enthusiasts acquired vintage railroad equipment in order to start their own tourist railroad. In 1966 the group obtained the northern 16.7 miles of the Reading Company's New Hope Branch in central Bucks County for a price of about $200,000. Using a former Canadian National steam locomotive and seven steel suburban passenger coaches, company was christened as the "New Hope and Ivyland Railroad".
Steam passenger service between New Hope and Buckingham Valley began on August 6, 1966. Freight service was provided by diesels leased from the Reading. The NHIR ran one of the last regularly scheduled steam-powered mixed freights east of Mississippi and the all-steamed tradition was broken in 1971 when the company finally purchased their own diesel. After a bankruptcy, Bucks County Railroad Preservation & Restoration Corporation has embarked on a $2 million effort to completely restore the New Hope and Ivyland Rail Road (NHRR) to its turn of the century ambiance. The Victorian New Hope station, freight house and boarding platform were refurbished, the tracks were rebuilt, and steam passenger service resumed in 1991 using 2-8-0 No. 40 and five vintage passenger coaches.
Well, this is my last sense lesson (#3000) on the tracks to become a geomaster, you are no longer an ugly duckling, grasshopper but have hopped into a butterfly and are now ready to cache away on your own. I can teach you no more, you now have 3000 senses/cents, or $30 now, enough to buy premium membership. Remember when you set caches, make them unique and Cache in trash out always.
Park at GC1FF17, or use the new path on the west side of the canal.
A "Micro but, Find is an easy but hopefully unique for you and an interesting walk to the end of the line. Wood area, has few weeds and I trimmed away only thorn bushes of consequence - BYOP
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