Before you start your hunt please take a moment and read a little history about Lebanon Junction.
Lebanon Junction Kentucky is located at the southern end of Bullitt County. Lebanon Junction grew up around the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which in 1851 chose the site as the best place to split off a track to the city of Lebanon in Marion County, from the main line headed south to New Orleans. Lebanon Junction was a refueling point and the last stop before northbound trains made the long haul over steep Muldraugh Hill.
Lebanon Junction is now quiet except for the clatter of passing freight trains and the rumbling from Fort Knox's nearby artillery range.
But in the era of steam locomotives, the town bustled with railroad crews as passenger trains and freight trains departed on the hour. The engineers, firemen, brakemen, conductors, flagmen and section hands who settled in the area were the brains and brawn of the railroad -- men like Uncle Doc Carter, who used to laugh as he pulled out the throttle on the trip to Corbin 142 miles away, scaring rookies so much they refused to ride with him.
The Civil War was an important chapter in Lebanon Junction's history, because the railroad was a constant target of the Confederates. In 1861, Confederates burned a bridge over the Rolling Fork of Salt River and Union General William T. Sherman and 4,000 troops made headquarters in the station at Lebanon Junction.
During Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's Christmas raid, troops laid waste to the huge wood trestles on Muldraugh Hill and reached as far north as the Salt River Bridge in Shepherdsville. Morgan's Cavalry was later pushed back.
The cache container is a white 35mm film container. It is well hidden from passerbys. The cache is not hidden on the upper portion of the caboose. Look down and stay on the police station side of the caboose. The cacher hunting this site will always be under the watchful eye of the town folk. The Lebanon Junction police station is just across the steet from this cache. So don't be surprised if you are observed from the police station or the local market and asked what are you doing.
Take a moment and vist this small town. There is a small resturant in Lebanon, by the same name of this cache, is supposed to serve up a real mean breakfast.
Hope you have fun hunting this cache.
Be Safe. Good Caching. Hope To Meet You On The Trail. OneDay Soon
