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Cedar Hill Railyard - Bonus - Polar Bear Hunt🐻‍❄️ Mystery Cache

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KDubs: It seems there is a fence with private property but the trail association was not aware so disabling until the matter gets sorted out

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Hidden : 2/19/2023
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Cedar Hill Yard is a classification yard located in New Haven, North Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, United States. It was built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad  in the early 1890s in and around New Haven's Cedar Hill neighborhood, which gave the yard its name. To handle increasing traffic as a result of World War I, the yard was greatly expanded between 1917 and 1920 with additional construction along both sides of the Quinnipiac River. The yard was further modernized in the 1920s, becoming one of the busiest railroad yards in the United States, and the most important yard in the entire New Haven Railroad system. At its peak during World War II, Cedar Hill Yard handled more than 5,000 railroad cars per day.

This is the bonus cache - the coordinates are for parking and the final can be found by looking for letter and number combinations on the lids of the caches (e.g. A=0). Use the following formula to solve for the bonus and, afterwards, continue on to find the Polar Bear

N 41° 20.(B)(F+4)(A+8) W 072° 52.(Cx3)(Ex3)(D+6)

Please note that these structures are old and care should be taken. None of the caches in this series were placed in or near unsafe structures and approval was granted by the New haven Trail Association.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Guvf fubhyq or nf rnfl nf 1,2,3 - V fnvq 1,2,3 Pnpur: Haqre envyebnq jbbq cvyr

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)