Diesel Switcher ***MIA***Retired LbNA #13564 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 23, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Marietta |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Safari Man  |
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| Found by: | Granny Butterfly |
| Last found: | Aug 20, 2006 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Feb 23, 2005 |
I tried to find the history of this particular Diesel engine but was unable. If you ask around town and find out please let me know.
Please bring a stamp pad, your stamp, an old rag, gloves and a pen.
Difficulty: Easy
Terrain: Mostly flat with some stairs if you go this way to the other letterboxes.
Distance: Best Guess is 1/4 mile max. to all three boxes.
Time: depends on how much browsing around you do in the Harmar area.
Clues:
NOTE: This box is reported missing and I tried locating it myself and was unsuccessful. My urban boxes are taking a beating and I can not replace them as fast as they are going missing so I am starting to just retire them.
This diesel sits on the tracks that continue on to the train bridge about 100 yards away. That bridge also serves as a walking bridge for folks wanting to walk across the river to Front street in Marietta.
Drive yourself to Harmar and get on Gilman Street. Take Gilman to Maple and turn toward the river. Continue on thru the quaint shopping district (I recommend a walk in this area and especially at the Soda Museum) to Crawford street and take a right turn. Go to the caboose and turn right just before it. Your should see the Diesel Switcher straight ahead. Go up close and park. Go climb aboard (carefully) and enter the operation center. Kinda junky isn't it? Anyway, look around then go to the Post Office side of this center and carefully reach above the ceiling boards at the end closest to the river , next to the conduit. You should feel the box and be able to easily pull it out. (that is unless someone pushes it way back......then it will take you or I some doins to ever get it back) Hopefully your in there by yourself and can do the stamping right there......other wise you might venture back to your auto to do this task. Please replace everything and put the box back far enough to be out of sight but close enough to reach easily. Now on to the others. Either walk the tracks across the river and back or get back on Maple and go toward the river and make a right on Fort Street. Go under the bridge and park or if walking, go down the stairs at this road and get on the downriver side of the bridge. Go to the river side of the supports on the river side of the road and stand facing the supports. (on your left and behind you a little will be a sitting bench behind a bush) Look at the ends of the three horizontal beams on the right side of the support you are facing. Between two of them you will see a small vertical board. Reach over this board and you will find the Train Bridge letterbox. You can now go to that bench to sit and do the stamping thing. Please discretely return the sealed box to its resting place and continue your search for another one. Head down river to the large concrete object you see at the edge of the river on your side. After viewing the mural on this large object (no, I don't know what the object is) and reading the historical marker on the other corner, walk back up river to the historical sign and read both sides about Lewis and Clark. Now walk back down river to the end of the bench closest to the large object. Either sit awhile or walk another left, right, left step. There should be a stickery bush at your side. Have you got any gloves?
The Fort Harmar black box is in this bush at a point closest to those benches. Find the box then go sit and do the stamping and when done please replace everything in the baggie and box, reseal the box well and put it back in the bush where you found it. Now carry on with your boxin while I go rest my fingers from all this typing. And have a great time in Marietta............there are tons of things to do in this classy little historic town, especially in the summer (less to do in Feb. in the snow when I am placing these boxes).
Please bring a stamp pad, your stamp, an old rag, gloves and a pen.
Difficulty: Easy
Terrain: Mostly flat with some stairs if you go this way to the other letterboxes.
Distance: Best Guess is 1/4 mile max. to all three boxes.
Time: depends on how much browsing around you do in the Harmar area.
Clues:
NOTE: This box is reported missing and I tried locating it myself and was unsuccessful. My urban boxes are taking a beating and I can not replace them as fast as they are going missing so I am starting to just retire them.
This diesel sits on the tracks that continue on to the train bridge about 100 yards away. That bridge also serves as a walking bridge for folks wanting to walk across the river to Front street in Marietta.
Drive yourself to Harmar and get on Gilman Street. Take Gilman to Maple and turn toward the river. Continue on thru the quaint shopping district (I recommend a walk in this area and especially at the Soda Museum) to Crawford street and take a right turn. Go to the caboose and turn right just before it. Your should see the Diesel Switcher straight ahead. Go up close and park. Go climb aboard (carefully) and enter the operation center. Kinda junky isn't it? Anyway, look around then go to the Post Office side of this center and carefully reach above the ceiling boards at the end closest to the river , next to the conduit. You should feel the box and be able to easily pull it out. (that is unless someone pushes it way back......then it will take you or I some doins to ever get it back) Hopefully your in there by yourself and can do the stamping right there......other wise you might venture back to your auto to do this task. Please replace everything and put the box back far enough to be out of sight but close enough to reach easily. Now on to the others. Either walk the tracks across the river and back or get back on Maple and go toward the river and make a right on Fort Street. Go under the bridge and park or if walking, go down the stairs at this road and get on the downriver side of the bridge. Go to the river side of the supports on the river side of the road and stand facing the supports. (on your left and behind you a little will be a sitting bench behind a bush) Look at the ends of the three horizontal beams on the right side of the support you are facing. Between two of them you will see a small vertical board. Reach over this board and you will find the Train Bridge letterbox. You can now go to that bench to sit and do the stamping thing. Please discretely return the sealed box to its resting place and continue your search for another one. Head down river to the large concrete object you see at the edge of the river on your side. After viewing the mural on this large object (no, I don't know what the object is) and reading the historical marker on the other corner, walk back up river to the historical sign and read both sides about Lewis and Clark. Now walk back down river to the end of the bench closest to the large object. Either sit awhile or walk another left, right, left step. There should be a stickery bush at your side. Have you got any gloves?
The Fort Harmar black box is in this bush at a point closest to those benches. Find the box then go sit and do the stamping and when done please replace everything in the baggie and box, reseal the box well and put it back in the bush where you found it. Now carry on with your boxin while I go rest my fingers from all this typing. And have a great time in Marietta............there are tons of things to do in this classy little historic town, especially in the summer (less to do in Feb. in the snow when I am placing these boxes).