Elevator: (Satellite)
Lock #16: (Satellite)
Note the wood grain elevator behind the right side of the depot.
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| Street View, Oct 2024 |
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| Allen County Museum and Historical Society posted This week's #ThrowbackThursday features Locomotive #3024 at the Erie Depot, eastbound of Spencerville, Ohio in 1941. |
The elevator also has a couple of stave silos.
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| 360-photo May 2020 |
With all those small bins in the bottom center, I wondered if this is a feed mill. Note the switcher in the upper-right corner. Some of the industries in this town get rail service.
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| Satellite |
This feed truck on the scale confirms that this is a feed mill.
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| 360-photo May 2020 |
Here is one of their feed trucks making a delivery.
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| UnitedEquityInc |
As is typical, rail service in a small town is being supplied by a shortline.
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| Street View, Jul 2023 |
Note the Miami & Erie Canal marked on this map.
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| 1944/44 Spencerville Quad @ 62,500 |
The canal is extant.
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| Street View, Jun 2023 |
In fact, there is still remnants of a lock on the south side of town.
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| Street View, Jun 2023 |
It was Lock #16.
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| vanwert via Dennis DeBruler |
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