Toledo, OH: Andersons K/Cargill Grain Elevator

Bird's Eye View

(Satellite)

This facility is owned by Cargill, but it is operated by Andersons, which has their own river facility nearby.

From Seaport Terminals, I learned:

• Can accommodate vessels from 800-900 feet
• Seaway draft
• 5,900,000 bushel total storage capacity
• Served directly by NS rail with 100 car track loading capacity

Google Maps labeled this as "Andersons Grain & Ethanol", but I don't see any ethanol facilities. Maybe that is what occupied the big grassy area. The ethanol plant was probably removed when more efficient facilities were built such as their own plant in Greenville, OH. This allows all of the storage capacity in this facility to be used for transloading from rail to ocean-going ships.

Stephen Kellogg -> Toledo Area Railfans

I learned from Stephen's posting of his August 1986 picture that it has its own Alco S6 locomotive. It is still there, but Andersons repainted it black with a grain logo.

The following aerial view shows this elevator in the lower-right, Andersons on the left, and ADM across the river.

SeaportTerminal

Bill Kalkman posted
The Andersons Grain & Ethanol. View is from N/B I-75. 4:43PM on 8-12-18 in Toledo, OH.

Craig Hensley Photography posted

Monochrome Monday

A westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train creeps across the Maumee River [on the NS/NYC Bridge] as they slowly work their way into Toledo, eventually coming to a stop just shy of the Toledo Amtrak station. The Chicago line was beginning to back up with westbounds and the Toledo dispatcher was trying her best to keep them all moving. 

Toledo, Ohio - October 2023

View the high res version here:

https://www.craighensleyphotography.com/Portfolio/Railroad-Photography/i-CgCLkRL/A

[A new view of the Andersons grain elevator.]

Jason Artz posted
My third home. The Andersons (Edwin) elevator in Toledo on the Maumee River. At both elevators while loading ships we average about 41,000 bushels an hour.
Bob Summers From my perspective as an "inlander" I think it would be very interesting to have more posts on barge loading elevators on the rivers as well as port elevators on both the great lakes and ocean ports. Waterfront views would be most interesting.

Jazon Artz posted

Jason commented on his post
"Loaded soybeans earlier today [Sep 19, 2019]."

Jason commented on his post

Michigan Film Photographer Karl Wertanen posted

The Robert S Pierson offloads grain into the Anderson K Elevators on the Maumee River in Toledo during the drizzle of a September evening back in 2012.

11 minutes @ f/11

Mamiya 7ii, 80mm on 6x7 Kodak Ektar 100 Color Negative Film

Thanks for sharing if you choose and have a great Friday! Cant believe April is literally a day away!

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#toledo

Michigan Film Photographer Karl Wertanen shared
[I wonder which grain is being unloaded. And from where it came from. I expect Toledo to be loading freighters, not unloading them.]

A timelapse video of a boat going upstream past Anthony Wayne Bridge. It is hard tofollow after it turns around and goes backward, but I think it is docking at this elevator.

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