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| EXISTING STATIONS | ||||||||
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| Station Name |
Original Railroad | Current Location |
Type | Current Use |
Date Built | Track Status |
Building Material |
More Info |
| Bluffton |
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562 North Main Street (GPS: 40.897892, -83.885319) |
C | Business | 1930 | Gone | Stucco |
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| Bluffton |
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Spring Street NE of Riley Street (GPS: 40.899728,-83.890588) |
P | Club | ???? | Gone | Wood |
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| Delphos (Northern Junction) |
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East 13th Street & West Washington Street (GPS: 40.855241, -84.338741) |
P | Private | 1952 | Gone | Block |
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| Kemp |
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150 feet north of the tracks on the west side of
Kemp Road (GPS: 40.724301, -84.223416) |
C | Residence | ???? | In Use | Wood |
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| Lima |
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Half block north of East Wayne Street on North Central Avenue (GPS: 40.744814, -84.102103) |
P | Public | 1887 | In Use | Brick |
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| Spencerville |
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East North Street just east of North Broadway Street (GPS: 40.714351, -84.348432) |
C | Vacant | ???? | In Use | Wood |
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| uniopolis |
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Lincoln Park north of East Elm Street, Lima (GPS: 40.738175, -84.088969) |
P | Display | 1893 | None | Wood |
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| STATIONS OF THE PAST | ||||||||
| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
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| Alnora |
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This town does not exist anymore. It was between Vaughnsville and Columbus Grove where the line breifly crossed in and out of Allen County between Searfoss Road and the county line. | ||||||
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Auglaize (Scotts Crossing) |
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| Beaverdam |
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The station was just to the north of the western end of Pearl Street. | ||||||
| Bluffton |
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The original station on this line was destroyed in a derailment on July 21, 1930 when a freight train crashed through a bumper. Station agent C.F. Buckland suffered a few broken ribs in the accident (Fremont News-Messenger, 7-22-1930). | ||||||
| Bluffton |
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This was the original Bluffton station which served until around 1899. It remained across the tracks from the newer 1899 station until the early 1980s. The photo shows the station not long before it was torn down. | ||||||
| Cairo |
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The freight section was removed and the station was modified in later years. | ||||||
| Cairo |
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| Conant |
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| Delphos |
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This station was located on the west side of South Washington Street at GPS: 40.841838, -84.338709. It was built in 1879. | ||||||
| delphos |
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The first passenger station was on the southeast corner of East 1st Street and South Washington at GPS: 40.842660, -84.338351. The freight station was on the next lot to the south at GPS: 40.842452, -84.338353. By the early 1900s those stations were gone (replaced by a large coal shed) and a newer passenger station was in place on the north side of East 1st Street at GPS: 40.842918, -84.338031. | ||||||
| delphos |
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The passenger station was on South Washington Street just south of the location of the old TSt.L&KC station at GPS: 40.841426, -84.338405. | ||||||
| Delphos |
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The original TSt.L&KC passenger station, which later served as the freight station when the new station was built, was just to the at the diamond with the PRR at GPS: 40.841620, -84.338404. It was gone by 1904. | ||||||
| delphos |
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The "new" passenger station was located on the northeast corner of South Main Street and East Jackson at GPS: 40.840865, -84.339504. The newer freight house can be seen across the tracks in the background of the photo. | ||||||
| Delphos (Northern Junction) |
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This station predated the existing NKP station that is at Northern Junction. | ||||||
| Delphos (Northern Junction) |
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There was likely no depot here, but it was a scheduled stop for the FFt.W&W, at least according to the 1915 ETT. Northern Junction was the junction of the Northern Ohio Railway (later AC&Y) and FFt.W&W’s Delphos Branch. It was 525 feet east of Main Street and 1,300 feet north of 13th Street (at approximately GPS: 40.855964, -84.338045). FFt.W&W’s Delphos Branch trains operated by trackage rights on 1.2 miles of the NO’s track from NJ to the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway’s Delphos-Dayton mainline, south of 1st Street and west of the Jackson/Franklin Street intersection in Delphos. | ||||||
| Elida |
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Maps from 1880 show the station on Main Street. A new station was built here in 1887. | ||||||
| Harrod |
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The station here also included a library. Station Agent Abe Bracher was also the librarian. The town purchased the library from the railroad and moved it into a building that also housed the town's jail (Lima News, 6-20-1915). | ||||||
| Hume |
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The station here was on the east side of SR 501 (Wapak Road), on the north side of the tracks near the old grain elevator. | ||||||
| Lafayette |
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| Landeck |
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There was at least a freight station here. It was on the west side of Kill Road on the NW side of the tracks. It is shown on the 1946 revised map of Delphos. | ||||||
| Lima |
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The original passenger station was just to
the east of where the existing station is, right in the SW corner of the
diamond. The original station was torn down around 1887 after the new
station was built next to it. It is shown on 1887 maps marked with "To
Be Demolished" sitting next to the new brick station. The freight station was on the east side of North Main Street on the south side of the tracks. |
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| Lima |
AND |
Built in 1891, this station was located on the north side of East Wayne Street. The first LE&W passenger station was a waiting room/ticket office located in the Hotel French which was directly across the tracks from the CH&D station. The station area was between the saloon and barber shop on the west side of the hotel. After the hotel was torn down, the LE&W sold tickets from the baggage room of the CH&D station as noted on Sanborn Fire maps. | ||||||
| Lima (South Lima) |
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In later years the LE&W also used this station in South Lima near the Locomotive Works. | ||||||
| Lima |
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There was a freight station on the south side of East Wayne Street on the west side of the tracks at GPS:40.743839, -84.101589. | ||||||
| Lima |
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There was a freight station on the south side of East North Street on the west side of the tracks at GPS: 40.742276, -84.101457. | ||||||
| Lima |
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The passenger station was on the south side of West 1st Street between South Main Street and South Elizabeth at GPS: 40.724137, -84.106070. In later years, the passenger station was heavily modified and stripped of its character. | ||||||
| Lima |
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The freight station was at SW corner of Greenlawn Avenue and West 1st Street at GPS: 40.724149, -84.108666. | ||||||
| Lima |
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There was a three-story brick passenger station built in 1898 on the south side of East Wayne Street just to the west of Jackson Street. This was on an extension track almost a mile from the mainline. There was a freight station right at the end of this extension just south of the passenger station. The passenger station was abandoned in 1931 and passenger traffic was moved back to the mainline station on Bellefontaine Street. | ||||||
| LIMA |
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This station was built in 1895 and was at the intersection of Linden and Wood Streets south of Bellefontaine Avenue at GPS: 40.736413, -84.089653. Prior to this station being built the Ohio Southern used the Chicago & Erie (Erie RR) station (The Lima Clipper, 12-27-1895). The Lima Northern ran one train per day from this station when it first opened. The date stone on the station read "1923," but this date is when the freight section was added on. The station was torn down in April 2015. | ||||||
| Lima |
Columbus & Lake Michigan RR |
This passenger station was just north of East Grand Avenue. The tracks were where North Central Aveune is today. The C&LM was a short line steam railroad that ran from Lima to Definace. It was previously known as the Columbus, Lima & Milwaukee. The station later became a motor freight station. | ||||||
| Manhattan (Townsend) |
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This station is called "Townsend" on the 1886 Chicago & Atlantic local timetable. | ||||||
| Shawnee |
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| Southworth |
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There may have been a Toledo, Delphos & Indianapolis (narrow gague) station here prior to its takeover by the CH&D. | ||||||
| Spencerville |
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This station sat on the east side of North Broadway Street just south of the intersection with Elizabeth Street (formerly Railroad Avenue). It was on the north side of the tracks. Today this triangle-shaped lot is vacant, but nicely landscaped (as of 2009). The station was built prior to 1880 by the TD&I (Toledo, Delphos & Indianapolis) narrow gauge prior to CH&D ownership. Both the station and tracks were gone by the mid-1920s. | ||||||
| Steiner |
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Not sure if this station was in Allen or Putnam County (see map below). It was most likely on the property of Adam Steiner (according to 1880 maps) which was on the east side of Tom Fett Road just south of the Putnam County line. There is no town there now, and this station may have simply served local farms in the early days of the railroad. | ||||||
| WestMinster |
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This station burned down on February 11, 1915 in a fire of undertermined origin. The railroad intened to rebuild the station, but it was replaced with two converted boxcars as shown below. | ||||||
| Westminster |
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These converted boxcars served as the station after the orginal station burned down in 1915. The photo is from around 1916 and the perspective is looking west toward Lima. | ||||||
| 1898 ALLEN COUNTY RAILROAD MAP | ||||||||
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Notes About Existing Stations... Bluffton (AC&Y) - Frozen custard stand. Decorated with AC&Y memorabilia and train history. The original Northern Ohio RR station on this line was destroyed in a derailment on July 21, 1930 when a freight train crashed through a bumper. Bluffton (LE&W) - Currently houses Bluffton American Legion Post #382 and Bluffton Community Sportsmen's Club. Moved from original site on Railroad Street between Cherry and College Streets. This second-generation station replaced the original station which sat across the tracks. The newer station was built soon after the opening of Bluffton College in 1899. The original station remained trackside as a freight station into the 1970s or 1980s. Delphos (NKP) - A retired NKP section hand (who worked out of Delphos from 1952 until the late 1980s) said the concrete building that was once a station and crew room. He said when he started with the NKP in 1952, the building was not there, but was built shortly after that time. The building housed two clerks, an operator, telegrapher, and the trainmaster's office was directly north of the current structure. The trainmaster's office is gone and only the concrete platform remains. In addition, there were showers and lockers for the crews when they arrived from Frankfort and Toledo to clean up after their runs. The bland concrete structure replaced several NKP offices located in the downtown business district of Delphos. The NKP/AC&Y yards were next to the western terminus of the AC&Y tracks. The NKP tracks from the former PRR mainline in Delphos were recently removed. --Daniel Meckstroth Kemp (Erie) - Two-unit apartment. The roof was raised and two dormers added for a second story. Lima (PFt.W&C) - Restored! Just west of the diamonds of the B&O/NKP and PRR! Spencerville (Erie) - Former HQ of Specerville & Elgin RR. Uniopolis (Ohio Southern) - This station was moved from Uniopolis and is now on display in the park near a steam engine also on display. |
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