The self-described rubber capital of the world, Akron was the home
of numerous rubber factories that made tires for Americas burgeoning
automobile industry. Many of the raw materials needed to create
rubber arrived by rail, and the finished products moved to market in
freight cars. The citys major railroads included the Baltimore and
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Erie Railroads, but three regional carriers,
the Akron, Canton and Youngstown, the Wheeling and Lake Erie, and the
Akron and Barberton Belt, also served Akron-area industries. Written
in cooperation with the Akron Railroad Club, this book chronicles the
ever-changing Akron railroad scene since the clubs founding in 1936.
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