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| Dan Nelson -> Toledo Area Railfans, used with permission |
- Deep Draft - Serves all Seaway Draft ships
- 2 berths
- Can weigh, grade, condition and offload rail and truck product directly into vessels (3000 metric ton/hour)
- Can receive inbound vessel product with high capacity self-unloading vessels (1600 metric ton/hour)
- Inbound vessel product can be stored, shipped by truck or rail or reloaded into another vessel.
- Served by CSXT railroad (65 car track)
- 9,000,000 bushel (330,000 metric tons) storage capacity
- 228 storage bins to segregate and identity preserve commodities
I assume that some of ADM's 8 smaller ships can use the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Looking at a map, you note that there is not a loop track to handle unit trains. But the elevator is long enough that the two tracks along side are evidently long enough to handle a 65-car train. This elevator is at the end of the former B&O branch that came up from Dayton through Lima. That is why CSX owns the route now.
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| Nick Dombi -> Toledo Area Railfans |
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| Nick Dombi -> Toledo Area Railfans |
Toledo, Ohio on the Maumee River. The Great Lakes freighter J.W. Shelly is loading grain. Taken Oct 18, 2010. The J.W, Shelly has since been scrapped. Elevator still active, especially during the harvest and shipping season in the fall.
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| Bill Kalkman posted We're doing 80MPH on Interstate 75 crossing the Maumee River as I spot the ADM Grain facility in East Toledo, OH. Bingo! 4:42PM on 8-12-18. I was not driving. |
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| Sandy Snyder-Townsend posted Great Lakes Shipping: ADM Elevator, Toledo, Ohio Robert Learmont  Sure wish the Montrealais and Quebecois were still around.Sandy Snyder-Townsend Many miles on the Great Lakes between U.S. and Canada (OOS 2015). |
Jason Artz posted three photos with the comment: "This is ADM across the Maumee River from where I work."
Bob Summers Ship looks like maybe a "laker" for shipping on the great lakes? Do you also get sea going vessels at these elevators? How much grain can you load on these ships?
Jason Artz The Mandarin is a ocean vessel. The other two are lakers. We are currently loading a ocean vessel that is going to Egypt I believe. The lakers pictured here can take approximately 1,100,000 bushels of corn,soybeans or wheat. Sometimes a little more or less.
Bob Summers So if I figure right about 3 unit trains to make a shipload?
Jason Artz At least. Depending on how many cars and size of car. Lots of variables.
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| 1 Dennis DeBruler I noticed that this salty has its own cranes and it doesn't have a self-unloading boom so it doesn't always carry bulk cargo. I'm surprised the ship is not facing the other way so that its cranes would be out of the way of the three loading booms that swing out from the side of the elevator. Jason Artz Notice the tug boats. The ship is just getting pushed up to the dock to get loaded. The cranes will eventually swing out of the way. The ships pretty much cannot go any further up river so they have to be turned around to head out the river. |
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ADM was the first elevator down by the bend in the river. Other photos of the wreck in Jeff's post include the grain elevator in the background.
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| The last photo posted by Jeff Rahla |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Jeff's post It was the Fassett Stret Bridge that got wrecked. 1952 Toledo Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
A contemporary view of Jeff's scene.
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| 1 of 7 photos posted by Andrew Dean Detroit Algoma Conveyor heading into Toledo with assistance from Tug Michigan and Cleveland. Andrew Dean Detroit shared |
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| Andrew Dean Detroit commented on his photo Had a good visit for sure! [So it was headed to the ADM grain elevator.] |
A Flickr photo of Florence Spirit heading up the Maumee River to load grain.
You can see this elevator in the background of a photo in B&O's Rossford Yard.
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