Akron Canton & Youngstown Railroad Forum

There were several storehouses behind the diesel shop. The largest was the Stores building, an elongated building with a loading dock on the north rail served side. It contained everything from nuts and bolts to dimensional lumber. It was painted tuscan red. Attached are photos looking down from the...

Pslota, Two years ago the Society donated our vast collection of AC&Y Archive records to the University of Akron (Archive). While the collection is not yet catalogued, there are "finding aids" which will help in your search for specific information such as track arrangement blueprints. If you can't...

The Publications team is seeking photographs and/or digital images of AC&Y's Pullman-Standard PS-2CD 4427-cuf covered hoppers. Twenty cars, numbered AC&Y 420-439, were purchased new in July 1964 for grain service. We plan to feature these unique "Jumbo" covered hopper cars in an upcoming issue of t...

There's a good chance AC&Y fans will be granted another AC&Y specific model. Earlier this year (2016) the Society was contacted by Kadee Quality Products to provide lettering detail for a new 50' PS-1 boxcar model in HO scale. Kadee has offered both 40' and 50' PS-1's for some time. However, the pr...

As mentioned, Ray Breyer is documenting the railroad prototype 36' boxcars corresponding to the four series to soon be offered by Accurail. The Accurail 1700-series (steel roof, wood end and deep "fish-belly" center-sill underframe) should closely represent the AC&Y's 500-series double-sheathed box...

scan0004 - Copy.jpg Accurail has announced a series of 36-foot wood-sheathed boxcars in HO-scale. The cars are in four variations are scheduled for late summer 2016 release. See http://www.accurail.com/accurail/CATALOG/Accurail_36ft.pdf These are entirely new models representing early prototype equ...

Regret to advise we have lost another AC&Y fan, Society member and friend. Wade Griffis battled lung cancer for the past year, but ultimately succumbed to the disease. Wade was a talented model railroader and purveyor of a line of custom decals (Black Swamp decals) which included many custom decals...

We have retained five (5) complete sets of ALL published magazines. One has been donated to the University of Akron Archive to accompany our other donated items at that repository. Another set has been donated to the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. That remarkable repos...

Am seeking information and particularly photos on the AC&Y served industries at Fairlawn, namely Carter-Jones Lumber and Fairlawn Supply & Concrete. Any help is appreciated. Below are a few early photos of the area when these AC&Y customers were active. Fairlawn is now 100% commercialized with no r...

While the AC&Y HS Company Store has been closed for a couple years, we still have a few items for sale, mainly photos and magazine back issues. These will be offered periodically on EBay with the proceeds going to support the AC&Y HS Archive, the bulk of which has been placed with the University of...