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Akron Gets a Piece of the Rock

January 12, 2015

 

img479-Edit-Edit533EChicago, Rock Island & Pacific No. 220 heads west through Akron on the Erie Lackawanna on a cloudy late day in the late 1960s or early 1970s.  It was not uncommon to see run-through foreign power or leased power on the EL, but few of the newer members might realize this. Sorry about the less-than-great image, but the original negative was damaged.

Photograph by Robert Farkas