Allen Junction

[Notch 8]

I was surprised a couple weeks ago when I stumbled across this and was hoping someone could shed more info on Allen Junction..

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[bdconrail29]

I will have to go home first and consult my map to finish this post, but I can at least get it started. Allen Junction was in Toledo (and I cannot remember off-hand the EXACT location so I'll have to look at my maps) but it was a point on Toledo and Western Railway, which was an interurban line, the westernmost section which reached Pioneer, OH. You can follow the route today still. If memory is correct, it went west from Allen Junction to Berkey, bowed slightly up into Michigan and then came back down into Ohio and passed through locations such as Franklin Junction, Fayette, and ended in Pioneer.

[iKJames]

It's located at the intersection of Sylvania-Metamora Rd and Allen Rd in Sylvania, OH and is where the line split to go to Adrian or Pioneer.. the line to Pioneer followed Sylvania-Metamora Rd and US-120 westward until Morenci, MI before making the turn south