07-08-2013, 08:01 PM
When the Maumee & Western operated the line none of the elevators shipped by rail. You had sporadic shipments of broken bricks to Liberty Center, unloaded just east of the State Route 109 crossing. In Napoleon: Interstate Cold Storage (reefers), Cloverleaf Cold Storage (boxcars), ADS (plastics), and Carson Industries (plastics). Universal Cooperative occasionally got tank cars. The feed mill in Okalona would sporadically ship covered hoppers. Johns Manville received sand in Defiance, but only at the downtown plant. On the west end there was just the farmers' co-op in Woodburn.