Rubber City Rails Volume 1, Akron Heritage

View the variety of the 1950’s in the Rubber City region!

* 25 Minutes of BALTIMORE & OHIO steam and early diesel. Many scenes feature the massive EM-1 Mallets, along with Mountains, Mikes, Pacific #64257 and switchers, EMD and ALCO types gleam as they head passenger and hotshot freight. See what happens when a Nash gets bashed by an E-6 on a mail run at Kent in 1956! Many great winter sequences, plus the “General” on tour.

* ERIE – diesel scenes mostly at the expansive Kent yard. See the panorama from a 100-foot light tower! F-3s on passenger, Erie-built #750, PAs on an office car special, wrecks and more.

* NICKEL PLATE steam & diesel, plus P&WV FMs at Harmon, Berkshire on the Erie interchange track, colorful GPs and O-8-O switchers.

* PENNSY and NEW YORK CENTRAL action at Brady Lake and Ravenna – along with more B&O! Baldwin
Sharks, Tuscan red passenger runs, NYC Fs, and coal train calamity.

* AKRON, CANTON & YOUNGSTOWN – Yellow FMs and “A day with the track gang”, 1954. You will get tired just watching the manual labor involved in this priceless segment!

* THE 1960s to 1976 – short segment shows leased B&LE Fs passing a Lackawanna RS-2. D&H Alcos, other strange doings up to the eve of Conrail. Ending with a “Flare salute” as an E-L freight departs Kent.