Existing Putnam County Stations

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City Railroad Current Location Type Current Use Date Built Track Status Bldg. Mat. Current Railroad Notes
Ft. Jennings
(in Cloverdale)
Cloverleaf Road 21L C Private ???? None Wood None Moved from
Ft. Jennings. See note.
Columbus
Grove
AC&Y Sycamore St. F Business 1960s Gone ??? None Insurance Office. See old photo before
building was re-sided. This small
pre-fabricated building was a freight
office built on the site of the original station.
Leipsic CH&D Belmore & Center Sts. C Stroage ???? Gone Wood None This was was the "downtown" CH&D depot
which was moved to its current location.
It originally sat on Railroad Street just
southwest of Liberty Street. It is now hard
to recognize as a station due to being re-sided.
Leipsic DT&I Sugar St. just east of 11th St. F Railroad 1966 In Use Metal I&O Replaced orig.
wooden station.
Mandale Findlay-Ft. Wayne Behind house at 24742 Road K22
near Mandale in Putnam Co.
C Private ???? None Wood None Used as storage. Moved.
Miller City
(Pleasant Bend)
TStL&W
(
NKP)
200 yds. off
SR 108 near tracks
C Private ???? In Wood NS Used as a garage.
Station was moved
from Pleasant Bend.
North Creek Cloverleaf CR 18A. C Business ???? None Wood None Moved to Hilter Airport.
Covered with alum. siding.
Ottawa CH&D Taft & Fourth ? Railroad ???? In Use Brick CSX MofW office.

Notes. . .

Cloverdale -  Depot is located 1/2 mile east of Cloverdale, Ohio. Going East on State Route 114 turn right on Buckeye trail (Road 22K) and go approximately 1.25 miles then right on Road 21L about a quarter of a mile. Was used as a cattle barn now sits empty and in disrepair. Update: In 2005 the station was dismantled, inventoried, and stored in the hopes of being renovated and reconstructed at a site yet to be determined.

Miller City - Mark camp writes. . . This must be the depot from Pleasant Bend. It was moved away from town and I photographed it in the late 1960s. It has since been moved to its present location. Some have said  it came from Kiefersville, but this is not possible for Kiefersville is on the NYC&StL and this is not a NKP depot. It is classic TStL&W architecture, identical to the depot at North Creek (compare photos). I had heard from a reputable depot enthusiast from the 1960s that it was moved from Pleasant Bend and never had reason to doubt this. Most of the other nearby Cloverleaf depots an be accounted for.

Putnam County Stations Of The Past

Station Railroad Notes
Belmore CH&D
Columbus Grove DT&I According to Sanborn maps, the passenger station sat on the southwest side of Sycamore (between Broadway and Vidette) and the original freight station was on the other side of the street near the Northern Ohio passenger station. A later freight station was built (or the original was moved to) the SW side of Sycamore. The passenger station was torn down sometime prior to 1951 as it is missing from the 1951 Sanborn map.
Columbus Grove Northern Ohio (AC&Y) The passenger station was built in 1897 and sat on the northeast side of Sycamore Street (between Broadway and Vidette) on the west side of the tracks.
Columbus Grove CH&D This station was at the corner of Water and Sycamore Streets. The freight depot was 50 feet to the north. The Ohio Electric interurban station was just to the west as the OE tracks ran parallel to the CH&D here. The CH&D depot was torn down in the 1970s.
Continental NKP This station sat on Main Street near Oak Street. The photo shows both the passenger station and freight transfer station (across the tracks). The Express Agency building is behind the station in the photo. According the Sanborn maps, the freight station was gone by 1928 and the Express Agency building was expanded.
Continental Cloverleaf The passenger station was at the corner of 5th and Oak Streets. It was across the street and slightly northeast of the Hotel Central. It was gone by 1928 and Sanborn maps from that year show only a small RR tool house at the location.
Dupont Cloverleaf Photo also shows Cloverleaf engine #102. The structure was moved to a
different section of the village, converted to a house, and burned a 
few years ago after it's condition had deteriorated beyond repair.
Glandorf FFW&W Was located on Main Street across from feed mill.
Leipsic D&LN (DT&I) This station was built in 1898 and sat on the southwest corner of 11th and Sugar Streets. It was on the east side of the tracks.
Leipsic Junction
(Craton)
CH&D/NKP This station was located at Second Street and Broadway on the southwest side of the diamond. There was a freight station on the northwest side on a transfer track. On the northeast corner of the diamond was the signal tower. This area was once called Craton.
Miller's City NKP
Pandora AC&Y
West Leipsic NKP This combination station was near the corner of Werner and Main Streets on the south side of the tracks. Maps show this as a passenger and freight station, however other sources claim that despite its design it was freight only, mostly serving a nearby poultry farm.

1898 Putnam County Railroad Map