| Here is the second page of the Dothan district local, #167, and where it gets interesting. This local handled local chores at Blakely and Hilton GA as well as Columbia AL. Note the first two cars on this list. The first one is a carload of ice coolers for Freeman Company in Columbia, a wholesaler at the time of fishing tackle and outdoors goods. The second car is a carload of refrigerators desinted for the Western Auto store in Columbia. Western Auto was big in this area at the time and in the era before the Mart brothers...K and Wal. The rest of the train was vars destined for Dothan with many of them going to connections with the Bayline and H&S. Line 12 shows a carload of plastics that will go to the H&S to Slocomb AL. Lines 16 and 17 are empty 40 ft boxes that will end up at Hedstrom of Dothan. Hedstrom manufactured toys and bicycles and shipped a lot of them out in 40ft boxes at the time. Line 21 shows a carload of nails going to E R Porter hardward in Dothan. Porter hardware is one of the oldest hardware stores in this area and still in business today althought they don't do any business with the railroad. Line 22 shows to be a carload of "cans" destined to Standard Oil in Panama City. I would bet this was a carload of oil in drums or 5 gallon buckets. Line 23 is actually a intermodal flat going to Panama City via the Bayline. It appears to be a trailer load of copper wire for Southern Bell, the phone company at the time. Lastly check out the last car on the train. It says it contains "dishes" and most likely it was a carload of paper plates and other paper goods as the car is destined for Houston Paper in Dothan. |