The Tallman Travel Bug Railroad Station Multi-Cache
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The Tallman Travel Bug Railroad Station
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Your looking for a small clear cylinder and an ammo box in that order. Watch for a few blackberry vines! Very easy find with a few twists!!
TALLMAN : was named for James Tallman who had an original donation land claimin 1851 . A discription of the town by Andrew Jackson Smith ( a pioneer) ,in 1940 " Tallman was a busy place then. The railroad had a big yard there,the engines were wood burners and used to back up to the Albany Ditch to take on water. The warehouse was a grain center of the country about, and cars were loaded nearly every day there. The post office ( 1886, was discontinued in 1923) was in father's store and there was usually a bunch of men sitting around the stove talking politics and swapping yarns." In 1921 Tallman consisted of more than 15 homes, six barns and sheds, a railroad depot section house ,bunk houses , and a grange hall that held dances where my father and mother met!! Two churches ,one hotel and the Senders Grain warehouse ( which burned ,I remember, some time in the 60's). To the north of the cache site you will see the railroad bridge over Little Oak Creek still there . The two caches set on the now abandoned railroad grades. Where these tracks joined the Lebanon-Albany rails there was a narrow gauge track that went all the way to Silverton called the Naton Cut-off. Some of the first logs from snow peak mountain were brought down this line to Albany.The railroad removed the rails here around 1991 . This cache and a little history is for my grandfather, Vern Criss, as he was the maintenance foreman for this rail area for many years and I now live at this site .
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