The Business of a Railroad - Southern Pacific, Albany, Oregon - November 1966

A bundle of railroad communications for Southern Pacific at Albany, Oregon for the month of November 1966. Let's cut the string and see what's inside.

Trains originating out of Albany Yard. The Independence Turn is daily except Sunday.
The work train consist is seen below. 

An SD9, a Mannix Plow, and lots of ballast. 

No stop for beans for this train. 

Instructions for the Toledo, Train 706. Toledo has a car capacity problem. Extra cars would have been set out at Albany. HHM was H.H. Mayberry, chief dispatcher of the Oregon Div.

Yumm! Canned Meat! Note the requirement for a food grade boxcar.

The southern Willamette Valley is the worlds leading producer of grass seed.
T.P. has "foned" it in.

Railroad mail via the Cascade.

SP ran a Brooklyn  Sub. peddler freight each way daily. Probably a set of three F-Units. Note the shipment of poles with their idler cars. There are two Evergreen cars of plywood

A two railroad routing all the way to the Gulf Coast of Florida. It is a fair bet that some of this particle board was scattered by Hurricane Katrina, years later.

Canned Goods was big on the SP. It is one of the commodities than declined greatly in later years. Mr. Rambousek was a conductor.

Saving the best for last. This is almost certainly the Griggs Logger, off a log reload at Griggs, Oregon on the Woodburn-Springfield Branch.  Apparently the Albany-Dallas portion was handled by the Independence Turn crew. These logs were bound for the huge Willamette Industries Mill in Dallas. This train would be known is later years as the "Snow Peak Logger."