Toledo, OH: Midwest Terminals: International, Ironville Rail & Transfer and South End (Kuhlman)

Facility 1: (Satellite)

Ironville: (Satellite)

South End: (Satellite)

International Terminal

Grant Helmkamp posted two photos with the comment: "Tell me more....to continue from my earlier post, shortly after the opening of the saint Lawrence seaway Toledo started construction of the Toledo overseas terminal to facilitate loading and unloading of salties carrying general cargo. The first photo is from 1961 while the facility wasn't entirely complete you can see rows of crates lined up on the dock waiting to be moved, the larger of the 3 ships is from Iino lines, a shipping company out of Japan. The 2nd photo is from 1969 and shows the facility during a time when it was being used to load and unload car carriers. They would come in loaded with cars from Europe and leave loaded with jeeps and other North American built cars going to Europe."

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[The CSX/Toledo Termina Lower River Bridge is in the right background.]

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[Grant's earlier post had photos of the bulk material docks in the background of this photo: CSX/C&O/HV and B&O+NYC.]

SSKUNKRACING, Jul 2022

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Ironville Rail and Transfer

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

High res: https://www.craighensleyphotography.com/.../Sce.../i-WG77Sd4

[The swing bridge in the background is the (NS+WE)/NKP(W&LE) Bridge.]

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I presume that Cleveland-Cliffs HBI Plant that is just inland of this terminal is a big customer. In fact, that is probably why it was built here. In fact, there is a conveyor belt that goes directly from the terminal to the stacker/reclaimer facility of the HBI Plant. And the conveyor from the self-unloading hopper can directly dump into the conveyor to the HBI Plant.

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South End Services

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Toledo Industrial Railroad (TIR) Services

They have their own shortline railroad based in the Ironville Terminal.

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[In the left background is the stacker/reclaimer of the HBI Plant.]

Yakima, WA: Restaurants/NP Depot

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Street View, Jul 2023

Brian Ambrose posted four photos with the comment:

One of the best ideas my sister came up with was on the days I am scheduled for afternoon immunotherapy here in Yakima, which happens once every six weeks, is we go to the ex-NP Yakima depot for breakfast at the Main Stop Restaurant at the north end of the depot.

The immunotherapy was set for today so we went this morning and I loved looking forward to going to the depot for breakfast, then dealing with the "needles" afterwards.  There were quite a few customers there when we arrived a bit after 10:00 AM but it thinned out soon afterwards.  This was the second time we have done this, first time was mid December.  Today had the bonus of a passing train outside our tables window while eating waffles.  Six weeks from now, looking forward to coming to the depot for breakfast again.......

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When I saw the two roundhouses on the south side of the tracks, I noticed that UP must have had a branch that terminated here.

1958 Yakima West and 1953 Yakima East Quads @ 24,000

The topo map shows a lot of industry downtown along the tracks. Some of it is still there. I wonder what DelMonte processes here. I spotted cherries, apples, more apples and hops.

Street View, Jul 2023

Shamrock, TX: Conoco Tower Station on US-66

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US-66 Overview

See US-66 Mobile Gas Station for more information.

Street View, Sep 2023

Route 66 Road Relics posted
The Conoco Tower Station on Route 66 in Shamrock Texas

Jim Northrop: Conoco = continental oil company.

[Several comments talk about how good the food is.]

Street View, Apr 2024

Hi, Sep 2023

A vintage motel appears to still be operational.

Street View, Apr 2018

And another has survived. Did these survive because the town is small and they are close to the I-40 exit?

Street View, Apr 2018

Street View, Sep 2023

The town leaves no doubt that you are on the original Route 66 highway.

Street View, Sep 2023

Street View, Sep 2023

Even non-car businesses have gotten in on the action. This mural doesn't exist in the previous Jul 2016 view. (I couldn't resist including the Rock Island boxcar.)

Street View, Apr 2018

All of the above was east of the I-40 exit (Main Street).

West of I-40 has not prospered.

Two filling stations and probably a car dealer are empty.

Street View, Sep 2023

Street View, Sep 2023

Actually, the addition does have some business.

Street View, May 2019

I did notice that there was a lot of vacant land along the road, even on the east side.

Scotland, SD: Lost/Milwaukee Depot and POET Research Center

Depot: (Satellite)

POET: (Satellite)

Jim Burrill posted
Scotland, South Dakota depot:

Terry Heiser: Which railroad line?

Dennis DeBruler commented on Terry's comment
Milwaukee. I think that the depot was north of Main Street and that they are digging out the house track. 1957 Scotland Quad @ 24,000

Nov 17, 1954 @ 17,000; AR1VHM000070081

I think the grain elevator in the photo has been replaced by one that was just south of Main St. and another one that was over a block north of Main St.

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"POET Research Center, located in Scotland, SD, was the first commercial scale bioethanol facility in South Dakota."

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I wonder if it now a research facility because it is too small to be a production facility. I presume it can't be expanded into a production facility because it doesn't have rail service.

Street View, Jul 2025

I read it is on the BNSF. Once again, being next to a Class I railroad is equivalent to being next to an abandoned railroad. It must be on the route between Tripp and Yankton.

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Ashland, MA: Offices/B&A Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2023

Street View, Sep 2023

This used to be a working train station in Ashland.  Do you know who designed or its history?

Thomas Dorman: Boston & Albany depot, built 1887, designed for the B&A by Shepley Rutan & Coolidge architects, successor firm after the death of Henry Hobson Richardson, in Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Monmouth Junction, NJ: Amtrak(NEC)/Pennsy Midway Tower: Pennsy vs. Pennsy

(Satellite)

Patrick O'Connor posted
Midway Tower on the NEC, which controlled Monmouth Junction

Philip Donnelly: Not just the Midway point between PSNY and MP76 but ML connection point of the Amboy branch east to the South Amboy coal docks.

Only tower i had to hoop up 19 orders, for the sand train against the grain and when we diverted psgr trains on the Amboy branch around the Wreck in Lincoln interlocking.

Jerry Gorla: Philip Donnelly I held the nites there for awhile back in my Operator days. I also remember working "SA" on the NY&LB when a ship hit the Raritan Drawbridge & I had to issue orders for.

I copied orders for the MUs to run that line over to Midway so they could get them running over to Wood where they were busing commuters to.

Bill O'Neal commented on Patrick's post
I held down a job there for a spell. Here's C&S maintainer Joe Reed standing near the doorway.

I included the substation behind it. It takes a lot of electricity to power the NEC locomotives.

Street View, Sep 2013

1954/56 Monmouth Junction Quad @ 24,000

Quakertown, PA: Event Space/Reading Depot and Restoring/Reading Freight House

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight House: (Satellite)

The freight house is behind the boxcar and depot.

Street View, Sep 2019

This is the freight house. The depot is in the left background.

Street View, May 2023

I checked out the tall white thing behind the depot in the above view. I don't know what it is other than a cellphone antennae tower.

Street View, Sep 2023

James Wilson posted 10 photos with the comment: "Someone recently posted a photo of Quakertown Station in Quakertown, PA. The photo showed the restored passenger side. The shots below were taken by me in 2024 and show the station's freight house,  currently being renovated. The roof was recently replaced."

Leanna Knight: This will be an event center for weddings and celebrations. Visit www.rail-yard-society.org for more info. I love this pictures. I’m the Executive Director of the Rail Yard Society. Our new metal roof is looking sharp.

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The depot is now an event center.

Photo, Sep 2020

A shortline railroad must use these tracks as their headquarters because many of the photos I saw had locomotives parked here, but their positions kept changing.

Stanford Baddley, Aug 2019

Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) must be a "sister" shortline.

Gregory Aaron, May 2021

Indeed, this is one of the routes operated by East Penn Railroad (ESPN). They have 14 locomotives.

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They are obscuring the logo. :-) Access to the locomotives must be part of the event space rental. Or did they trespass?

Alan Hoffman, Sep 2018

The restoration work of the depot was extensive.

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"In May 1989, a fire destroyed a large portion of the building’s interior and roof.  The Quakertown Train Station Historical Society Inc. was formed by a group of concerned area residents to stabilize the burnt out structure. The task of restoring the structure to its original condition was undertaken next through numerous fundraising events and grants."