Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Toledo, OH: NS/NKP/W&LE Ironville & Homestead Yards and Ironville (VI) Tower

Homestead: (Satellite)
Ironville: (Satellite, the car shop buildings have been removed)
Rail Transfer: (Satellite)
Tower: (Satellite, crossing with CSX/Toledo Terminal. On a 2024 satellite map, it was extant.)

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.]

1938 Point Place Quadrangle @ 1:62,500

This photo was moved to "Toledo, OH: Midwest Terminals: Internationial, Ironville Rail & Transfer and South End (Kuhlman)."
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Tower: NS/DT&I vs. CSX/Toledo Terminal


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.

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.





1 comment:

  1. 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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