*note: If at anytime you find yourself crossing railroad tracks, you've gone the wrong way. There is no reason to leave Bailey Park to find this cache
Clues:
- Use your GPS to find the location at the coordinates N40 27.349 W74 20.529 at this location you see yellow, blue and red
- From the two trunked tree here, head on a compass bearing of 273°, at 25 paces you will see a path along "the chain".
- Continue down that path for 56 paces.
- At ~20 paces you'll see a chunk of concrete in the ground
- At 44 paces you'll need to hop an obstical across the trail
- Finally at 56 paces you'll see where the Juggernaut broke free.
- Turn south and take 20 steps down into the woods.
- The Juggernaut now rests in and among the ruins.
History:
In 1914 a sequence for the silent film Juggernaut was filmed at Duck's Nest Pond, now part of Bailey Park in Sayreville. The crash sequence consisted of an engine and three cars filled with dummies that plunged off the end of an end temporary trestle.
In order to capture the event on film, a stand was built in the pond for the cameraman to film the sequence. Almost two thousands spectators watch as the train wreck and filming of the scene. The train came down the mainline and switched off onto the 300ft long trestle at 50 mph. At the key moment, dynamite shattered the trestle and the train dove into the pond. When train went into the water, the waves from the impact almost knocked the cameraman off his stand.
Several months after the filming of the Juggernaut, dummies used in the crash were popping up around town. For 24 years, the Juggernaut sat at the bottom of Duck Nest Pond. In 1938 a Perth Amboy scrap company fetched the wreck.
This cache is certified Central Jersey!
