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The Barberton is a Pullman Heavyweight Sleeper Passenger Car built in 1924.
It was born out of Lot#4762, Plan#3410 and had 12 open sections and one drawing room.
The traditional arrangement of Pullman Cars is the open section. During the daytime, passengers were accommodated in comfortable sofa seats. At night, the upper berth dropped into place from the ceiling, and the cushions of the daytime section seating drop down to form a base for the lower bed. Both berths had space for clothes hangers, a rack for toilet articles, etc. Berth curtains provided privacy. The upper berth was the least expensive accommodation offered in a Pullman sleeping car.
The drawing room provided a spacious living room with a wide sofa, two movable lounge chairs, private toilet, luggage space and a wardrobe for hanging clothes full length. It accommodated three full length beds at night, including an upper berth type bed that drops down from the ceiling. The drawing room was especially suited for family or group travel.
During the First World War, Pullman properties, like other railroad properties were taken over by the Government. In addition to changing color schemes, improvements were introduced included increased lighting, a dental lavatory, metal dust deflectors at windows, sliding car window screens, anti-pinch devices on doors, floor lights in the aisles, and the safety ladder.
This provides an idea of what the Barberton would have looked like in its early days.
In 1948, the Barberton was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and designated as car PRR#8729 were it served as a substitute car. It is possible that the Barberton served as part of a variety of well-known trains that ran as part of PRR. Some of the trains in operation during the life of the Barberton include the Gotham Limited, the Ohioan, the Union, the Pennsylvania Limited, the New Yorker, the Golden Arrow, the Red Arrow, the Spirit of St. Lois and the American.
The Barberton remained active as a public passenger car for PRR until 1961 when it was retired from public work and reassigned as a Maintenance of Way (MofW) transport for railway workers and equipment. At this time it was repainted to standard MofW yellow and given a new designation number.
In 1968, PRR merged with rival New York Central Rail (NYC) to form the Penn Central Transportation Company (PC). Within two years of the merger, PC filed for bankruptcy and all property was either liquidated or scrapped. The Barberton was scrapped and stored in a Hollidaysburg, PA rail yard.
In 1976, all viable parts were transferred to Conrail (CR), which was itself broken up in 1999, with 58 percent of that system going to the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), including nearly all of the former PRR property.
The Barberton sat in the rail yards outside of Hollidaysburg for nearly 30-years. Then, sometime between 1996 and 1998, various freight and MOW cars were dumped derelict in the former East Altoona Receiving Yard and ownership of the Barberton transferred to Antis Salvage.
Again, the Barberton sat in decay for over a decade. Sometime between 2009 and 2011, the Barberton, along with the other various cars in Antis Salvage ownership were turned on their sides and the wheel trucks removed. This is how the Barberton exists today.
I find it interesting that, though there are many old pieces of machinery discarded and decaying in hidden places all around, once you give something a name, that decay seems more prominent; sad, almost.
To find this cache, you must first locate the remains of the Barberton at the posted coordinates. Once at the site, locate the Barberton’s current designation number and track ID.
They will be in the form of ’PRR abcdef' and ‘TRACK KDRS-gh’, where ‘abcdef’ and 'gh’ are numerical digits.
The cache will be found at N40 ca.ffg W078 hg.5cd.
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Explanation of Difficulty/Terrain Ratings:
Difficulty: 
could be in one of several locations / less than 30 minutes to find; lightly camouflaged and/or blends well into the environment; gives cache container type and/or location of the cache / no hint needed or gives exact location of the cache; periods of light traffic and/or muggle activity / good GPSr reception.
Terrain: 
clear trail or path with a medium surface / water hazard less than 6 inches deep; less than 1/2 mile from paved parking/road; medium vegetation growth / encounters with poisonous plants and/or wildlife occasional; several changes in elevation, may require small amount of climbing.
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