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Akron Action Road

Akron is over 1,000 straight line miles from Denver, and no one could mistake the largely horizontal topography of eastern Ohio for the Moffat Route or Tennessee Pass. And yet on the mountain-less, tunnel-less, canyon-less route of the WLE west of Akron, the Action Road image runs rampant, however out of place it may appear. Such a phenomenon is the holdover from longtime WLE executive Larry Parson's prior two-decade stint with the western mountain climber, formative enough for the chairman's career that the Wheeling has adopted the bands of gold and black as its corporate colors. Over 30 years since the Rio Grande faded into history, its aesthetics continue to live on, as one of the Wheeling's true DRGW tunnel motors powers late-day westbound freight 291 out of Akron bound for Hartland and overtakes the current incarnation of the livery resting dead in the hole at Summit Street.

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Uploaded on August 9, 2020
Taken on July 17, 2020