Antwerp, OH: Grain Elevator Conveyor over ND&W Mainline and Wood Elevator

(Satellite)

ND&W = Napoleon, Defiance & Western (NDW) 

The is not a conveyor over a Class I railroad because this Wabash route is now owned by the shortline NDW.

Note the hopper cars on the siding in the background. This appears to be another example of a rail-served elevator that does not have a fall protector. 

Street View, Jul 2023

This is the other end of this elevator. The storage of this elevator has grown a lot over the years, so it has a big grain dryer.

Street View, Jul 2023

And across the street is a wood grain elevator. Is (was?) this a feed mill? This elevator (Mercer Landmark) participates in a big feed operation, but the feed is now produced at other locations.

"MPS Feed specializes in the efficient production of Poultry feed for layers and pullets for customers throughout Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana." [MercerLandmark_feed]

Are those hopper cars in storage rather than serving this elevator?

Street View, Jul 2023

This is how I learned about the conveyor over the tracks. 

William A. Shaffer posted

Wabash Railroad. 

Antwerp, OH

(Photographer Unknown - Collection of William A. Shaffer)

This is as close as I can get to the view in William's photo. Note that William's photo doesn't have to two big bins. The bins appear in a 2014 street view, which is the oldest one that is available.

Street View, Jul 2023