Where Was Headquarters of Toledo, St. Louis and Western Rr

Toledo, OH to Craigville, IN

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This uninhabited railroad track began in 1874 As the Toledo and Maumee Sandbag, a 7-mile long narrow gauge line built along the Miami and Erie Canal in Toledo. In 1879, it compact with four other railroads, comme il faut the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad. It reached Eastside Gateway to the West, MO, in 1883. Shorty later, the company collapsed, and the lines were broken upbound and sold-out to opposite railroads. A short time after, the Toledo-East Saint Louis bloodline became the Toledo, Saint Louis and Kansas City Railroad, adopting the "Cloverleaf" arsenic its emblem. The line was converted to regular gauge in the late 1880s. By 1893, the company went into bankruptcy, and emerged every bit the Toledo, Gateway to the West and Northwestern Railroad. The company lasted until 1922, when it was purchased aside the Nickel Plate Itinerant (NKP). It subsequently became the "Cloverleaf Division," and finally provided the connection to Saint Louis for the NKP, which was the freehanded intent upon its formation.

In 1964, the NKP merged with the Norfolk & Western (NW). In the early 1970s, a derailment near Continental spelled doom for this line; rail was pulled up from Grand Rapids to Douglas in 1975, and from Douglas to Craigville, IN, in 1998. (This portion was sold-out to a shortline railroad in the late 1980s, but service was eventually discontinued away 1998.)

A 15-Swedish mile segment of the line from Waterville, southeast of Toledo, to Terrific Rapids was saved, and is still busy by a volunteer dragoon, the Toledo, Eri, & Western. Otherwise, most of the ROW has been obliterated by agriculture. Ironically, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) notwithstandin lists the portion from Continental to the Ohio/Hoosier State state boundary A active, though no trackage stiff connected this segment.

A shortline, the Wabash Central Railroad, operates the tracks beyond this occupation west from Craigville to Van Buren.

See also Part 2 of the Cloverleaf Section.

Look northeast near the community of Waterville. This is the last remaining segment of this line, and is 15 miles long. IT is still in use by a volunteer railroad, the Toledo, Lake Lake Erie, &ere; Western. Photo by Aaron M., 10/18/2008.

Looking southwest near the community of Waterville. This is the last remaining segment of this line, and is 15 miles yearn. It is still in use by a voluntary railroad, the Toledo, Lake Erie, & Western. Pic by Aaron M., 10/18/2008.

Looking southwest in the community of McClure, Ohio. The railroad has endless been uninhabited here, equally evident past the somewhat gigantic trees now growing on the ROW. The raised-railbed can be seen moving crossways the central of the frame. Photo by Hank Aaro M., 10/18/2008.

The Cloverleaf's Maumee River bridge over, in Yard Rapids. It is still in role (occasionally) by the TLE&W holidaymaker railroad. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

Looking north, the spellbind to the bridge. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

Same location, looking South. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

The TLE&adenylic acid;W's "yard" in Lordly Rapids. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

Looking sou'west off of Pratt Lane in Grand Rapids, the end of the line is where the boxcar sits, buried in weeds. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

Looking north off of CR-1 in Grand Rapids, is the former crossing, straight off simply a hump in the itinerant. Photo by Aaron M., 6/15/2010.

Look at the switch just southwestern of the I-475 flyover in Maumee, one can see a cluster of the counterfoil ends of once through-origin railroads. The track that goes off to the right is all that remains of the Wabash line to Montpelier. The trail ends in the distance, and the remaining stub is used away NS for car storage, as pictured here. Looking straight ahead, notice the "kink" the existing track makes slightly to the unexhausted. The Wabash line that ran towards Ft. Wayne, Indiana (now abandoned to Liberty Middle-of-the-road) ran just straight away from the frame of this photo. The existing track connected the left "kinks" outside, then parallels the abandoned ROW. It is a "new" connection to the old Cloverleaf Division. The original alignment of the Cloverleaf followed US-24 into Maumee, where information technology then followed U.S.-25 into downtown Toledo. At approximately full point, it was consolidated with the Wabash lines all the way through Maumee, and an S-curve was built all but a land mile or so south of the photo, where it reconnects with the seminal alignment around Stitt Rd. This had to have been done in front the mental synthesis of I-475 and US-24 in the 1960s, since part of US-24 runs atop the grade, while there is no overpass well-stacked into I-475. NS ownership ends conscionable beyond the Dutch Rd. crossing (NS serves a couple of customers in the area), then a tourist railroad picks up ownership the whole way to the line's current end, just outside of Grand Rapids, Ohio. It is abandoned sou'-west from Grand Rapids. Photo by Aaron M., 6/22/2010.

This railroad line bridge crosses over the Saint Madonn's River just east of Willshire, OH. Photo aside Mike Fromholt, 3/27/2012.

This railroad bridge crosses over the Saint Mary's River just eastside of Willshire, OH. Photo past Microphone Fromholt, 3/27/2012.

This railroad bridge crosses complete the Saint Mary's River just due east of Willshire, Buckeye State. Photo aside Mike Fromholt, 3/27/2012.

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Where Was Headquarters of Toledo, St. Louis and Western Rr

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