Downloadable Issues of the AC&YHS NEWS
Featured in this issue of our bi-annual News magazine is the Sperry detector cars on the AC&Y and the an interesting proposal from the A&Y for the Riverlake conveyor system.
Featured in this issue of our bi-annual News magazine is Part I of AC&Y’s wreck relief equipment and MOW cars.
This issue covers the Spring, 1964 acquisition of twenty high-capacity covered hoppers, the AC&Y’s initial ground breaking purchase of so-called “Jumbo LO’s”.
This issue examines the AC&Y during the Depression years with special focus on the eventual emergence of the road leading up to the onset of World War II hostilities.
The Fall and Winter 2015 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. The focus of this issue features the fascinating history of some twenty water stations along the AC&Y from 1883 to 1955.
The Spring and Summer 2015 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. The focus of this issue is the 201 former SL-SF 50-foot auto cars leased by the AC&Y in 1959. Pertinent to the topic is the development of the auto car, the western railroads’ preference for single-sheathed versions and examination of the particular cars built by the Frisco.
The Fall and Winter 2014 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. This issue covers an industry central to the AC&Y's early success and Akron's development as a manufacturing center, though few vestiges remain today. The industry was brick and clay products. Among the AC&Y customers in this group were Robinson Clay Products, E. Bigelow & Son, Colonial Brick (later Camp Brothers) and American Vitrified Products, whose Barberton works was the largest sewer pipe plant in the world.
The Spring and Summer 2014 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. The lead story "Eight Wheel ex-PRR Cabooses of the Akron and Barberton Belt" is an effort to faithfully document non-revenue equipment belonging to the A&BB.
The Fall and Winter 2013 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. The lead story "Temptest at Tymouchtee" is detailed look at one of the AC&Y's worst derailments. This article, intially published in the Volume XII Number 2 Summer issue in Summer 2005. This issue has been revisited with new information and color pictures.
The Spring and Summer 2013 edition of the AC&YHS News contains an in-depth feature article. The lead story "Minnesota Mining – Copey" is detailed look at one of the AC&Y's most interesting shippers.