Railway Express Agency Traditional Cache
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THIS CACHE IS LOCATED AT THE OLD New York Central Train Station ON EAST RIVER ST. IN ELYRIA OHIO. THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY CASH AND DASH. DURING BUSINESS HOURS YOU WILL NEED TO USE STEALTH. MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT ALL OF THE TRAIN STATION ITEMS LEFT BEHIND AROUND THE DEPOT. SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN FIND TAKE A PICTURE AND POST IT.. NOW ONTO THE HISTORY!!
THIS STATION IS ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND WAS FIRST USED AS THE "New York Central Freight House" IN LATER YEARS IT BECAME KNOWN AS THE "New York Central Train Station" AND IN 1929 IT WAS CALLED THE "Railway Express Agency". AN OLD RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY SIGN HANGS ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING.The Railway Express Agency was a rail express service, at one point the only one in the United States. Originally the American Railway Express Agency, founded on March 29, 1839, its name was changed in 1927. It filed for bankruptcy in 1975.
In 1860 there were three principal transcontinental mail and express routes: the first route was by ship from New York to Panama then by portage across the Isthmus to the West Coast and finally back to sea for the last leg to San Francisco; second, the Butterfield and Fargo Stage line operating from St. Louis through the Indian Territory along the Santa Fe Trail and up to Los Angeles to San Francisco; and third, the stage line of Russell, Majors, and Waddell, which traveled from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas to Denver, then over the Rocky Mountains to Salt Lake City, Utah, and to California terminating in San Francisco.
Early in 1860 the Pony Express concept was formed and operated from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The end of the Pony Express came in 1861 when the telegraph line connected Omaha and San Francisco and officially ended on October 26, 1861.
On November 1, 1866 Wells Fargo & Co. purchased the stage and Pony Express operations from Ben Holladay. At this time, there were several express companies; however, by 1914 there were only seven. During World War I these seven companies were consolidated at the direction of the US Federal Government into one nationwide organization, the American Railway Express Agency. In 1929 the nation's railroads bought the express business and changed the name to Railway Express Agency.
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