Ironville: (Satellite, the car shop buildings have been removed)
Rail Transfer: (Satellite)
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| East Toledo Historical Society posted Wheeling and Lake Erie Car Shops in the Ironville Yards on Front St. This was a large car rebuild operation that required many employees. Operation was moved elsewhere in the1960's. Robert Stewart: Located where the East Y goes through and by the bone yard. Also used as the old rip track. Foundation's are still there. [Then nature has covered the foundations because I could not find them on a satellite image.] |
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| 1938 Point Place Quadrangle @ 1:62,500 |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted Scenes from the Railroad The Ironville Rail and Transfer loop sits on a 70 acre lot along the Maumee River in Toledo, OH. With over 28,000 feet of rail which is serviced by in-house locomotives. Onsite there are liquid bulk transloading racks and pumps to move material directly from rail to truck and vice-versa. There is also a self-unloader receiving hopper and conveyor system that can receive bulk products directly from vessels at 2,000 NT per hour. Toledo, OH - Octobert 2023 [The swing bridge in the background is the (NS+WE)/NKP(W&LE) Bridge.] |
Tower: NS/DT&I vs. CSX/Toledo Terminal
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| Rod Clark posted The Ironville Tower was an interlocking tower in Toledo, Ohio that controlled the crossing of the Toledo Terminal Railroad and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (W&LE) Railroad. It was located at the west entrance to the W&LE's Homestead Yard on the east side of Toledo. The tower's telephone designation was "VI" Conrail SW1500 9556 passing by on July 29 1989. My photo. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Rod's post I noticed on a satellite map that it is extant. It still appears in a Aug 2023 street view, but this Aug 2011 view shows more of the tower. https://maps.app.goo.gl/poYdmEPRYuULvr8o6. |
Always cool to see vintage pics of the original Wheeling and Lake Erie. I grew up in Bedford, Ohio and have walked many miles of that line as a kid in the 70s during the N&W days. Much of the line is the same today as it was then.
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