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Lost Village - Fargo Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/5/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This geocache will bring you to the crossroads of railway operations if only a major railway running an east west route through Ontario from Detroit to Buffalo had not gone out of business and been sold off in the process. Believe it or not, this was a major railway connecting point with the Michigan Central Railroad running east/west and CSX (Chesapeak and Ohio running north/south between Erieau and Sarnia.


Welcome to Fargo, now not even a dot on the map; but on the railway map of a  few decades ago and farther back this was an important point on the railway map of Ontario. 

You are standing where there is a bend in the road; a bend that normally would not be there. One can drive Fargo Road from one end to the other and this is the only place along the road which has a bend but there is no natural geographic feature here that would cause a bend in the road. There is, or I should say, was, a man made feature here in the way of a railway wye which necessitated a bend so the alignment of the railway tracks would match the direction of the road for vehicle crossing purposes. For those not familiar with railway terminology a wye think 'Y' is used to turn a train so a major curve was built here by the railway(s) so rail cars could be moved from the east/west track to the north/south track to be interlined with the other railway, etc. Later in life the Michigan Central Railroad (MCR) route became the Canada Southern or better known in the business as the CASO (pronounced Kay-so).-/'

Alas, the Canada Southern was also put out of business and almost all of its trackage has been ripped off. Fortunately the Canada Southern railroad station in St. Thomas was saved from the wrecking ball and remains in downtown St. Thomas, as what was once the largest railroad station in Canada.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

qvntbany fgevcrf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)