Thursday, August 23, 2012

Early 1960's era Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad yellow 40 foot box car.

A colorful regional railroad based in the state of Ohio many years ago, and now long since a fallen flag railroad, was the Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad.

Their yellow 40 foot boxcars whith bright bold red graphics, really stood out in an era of plain oxide brown box cars.

I photographed this model, at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers, H.O Scale Model Railroad Club.

1 comment:

alan said...

Nice to see someone interested in the AC&Y. I am a member of the AC&Y Historical Society and am in the early stages of modeling a portion of the AC&Y in HO. I have many of the yellow box cars in my fleet. And yes, they do stand out amongst the crowd. Sadly, the real AC&Y wasn't real frequent with their repaints so most of the yellow cars (and locos) were very faded. Almost to not yellow any longer.
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