Towns and Nature: Toledo, OH: Andersons River (Kuhlman) Grain Elevator

Friday, November 27, 2015

Toledo, OH: Andersons River (Kuhlman) Grain Elevator

Andrew Severson posted, cropped
12/10/22 the Ludogorets loading up dock side in Toledo.
Dennis DeBruler shared
This is Anderson's downstream elevator in Toledo, OH, loading a salty (export).

Dennis DeBruler commented on his share
"The Andersons opened the first deep-water grain loading facility on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes."
https://www.andersonsinc.com/about-us/history/#1960s

Dennis DeBruler commented on his share
The Ludogorets can hold 38,881.3 cubic meters of grain. So how big is a bushel?
https://www.navbul.com/en/fleet/details.php?id=64
Brett Ellis: Dennis DeBruler 1.24446 cubic feet
Dennis DeBruler: Brett Ellis So it can hold about 1.1 million bushels.
Bob Summers: Dennis DeBruler so for comparison purposes a unit or shuttle train of 100 hopper cars would haul about a third of a million bushels.
Bob Summers: Brett Ellis and to convert to weight it depends on what commodity, but corn is 56# to the bushel and wheat 60# for example.

Dennis DeBruler commented on his share
The Andersons now also runs the elevator that is just upstream around the bend, and ADM has a big one across the Maumee River.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6309637,-83.5296139,399a,35y,270h,39.3t/data=!3m1!1e3

Wyatt McCarley posted
Saginaw unloading at Anderson’s in Toledo, Ohio this morning. 06/24/23
Dennis DeBruler shared
A classic Laker as well as a big grain elevator.

Dennis DeBruler commented on his share

Kate Stoiber posted
I used to watch many ships come to my hometown of Toledo. They would come down through the St. Lawrence seaway through Lake Ontario into Lake Erie, and down the Maumee River to the port of Toledo to load grain from the Anderson Grain docks on the Maumee River. They also loaded Jeeps to transport to other countries.
Clare Gilbert: Mid States elevators on this side of the river and Anderson's on the far side. The pond behind Anderson's is all filled in (Now Kuhlman's (sp) dock. Cargill is our of the picture to the left. Loaded many load in Toledo.
[The elevator by the railroad bridge became this elevator, and the elevator in the foreground became the ADM elevator.]

An older version of this grain elevator is in the background of this photo.

Gregory Molloy posted
04/09/1964. Chesapeake & Ohio's "Sportsman" crossed the Maumee River moments after leaving Toledo Union Station on its run from Detroit and Toledo to Columbus and, ultimately, Newport News, Virginia. The "Sportsman was discontinued as a separate named train in 1968. My photo.
[The train is on the NS/NYC Bridge.]

Brain R. Wroblewski posted
Here's a shot from Toledo that shows some of the "alternate" grain storage options besides a traditional elevator. They have a typical concrete elevator that's older, but you can also see modern grain storage domes & even large steel bins. Those could be cheap & nasty options for ADM to replace the Great Northern.

Dan Nelson -> Toledo Area Railfans

Across the Maumee River from the ADM elevator is Andersons River Elevator. The big boat in Dan's picture is docked at Andersons. This was the first deep-water grain loading facility on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes. (History, 1960s)

From Seaport Terminals, I learned:

Seaway draft of 26.6 feet
Can accommodate vessels up to 1000 feet
7,000,000 bushel total storage capacity
Can off-load through Kuhlman facility
Served directly by NS rail with 65 car track loading capacity

Nick Dombi -> Toledo Area Railfans

Nick Dombi caught a view from across the river while he was photographing the CSX rail service for the ADM elevator.

See the end of NS/NYC Bridge over Maumee River for some more pictures of boats docked at the elevator in the background.

Bird's Eye View

Randi Parton -> Toledo Area Railfans

Update: Randi was taking pictures of NS's Veterans and First Responder (911) lash-up, but he also caught another angle of Andersons on the left. This train is approaching the Maumee River Bridge.

William Littrell -> Grain Elevators of North America

Michigan Film Photographer Karl Wertanen posted

The Robert S Pierson off loads grain cargo at the Andersons K Elevators in Toledo Ohio.

A 40 minute ride from my home in Monroe MI...

...down to the Maumee River in Toledo affords me this photo of light and an industry...

...which has been a way of life for people on the Great Lakes for well over a hundred years.

We take for granted many of the goods we receive and use in our daily routines.

The people that work on these massive ships sacrifice their family life for 3/4 of the year or more to support their families and to keep our economies flowing...

...transporting food, building materials and other essential goods that we use and take for granted every day.

Here's a 'thank you' to all the home sick sailors out there.

Photo taken with Mamiya 7ii, 80mm on Kodak Ektar 100 Color Negative Film

I got the "Kuhlman" name from this post. And the vantage point for this view is was given in a comment as a driveway at Fassett Street.

Nick Dombi -> Toledo Area Railfans

Dave Hickcox posted two photos with the comment:

Andersons is a Toledo, Ohio based grain company with operations in various Midwest locations. Its largest facility is in Toledo on the Maumee River. This large elevator is just part of their complex. Loading grain for export is the salt water ship Eider, owned by Canadian Forest Navigation or Canfornav for short. This facility is across the Maumee River from the elevator I posted yesterday. 2008.