| 1890 | Erie depot is constructed on 4th street. | |
| 1891 | First reported death involving a Barberton area railroad. | David Clark was killed in New Portage when he was struck by a freight train. |
| 1891 | CA&C train struck a farm cart | Only a slight amount of damage to the train was recorded. |
| 1891 | NYP&O derailment | |
| 1891 Dec |
B&O derailment | coal car |
| 1893 | Dead Baby found on rails | Unidentified baby was found by Erie railroad employees. The case was labeled as murder. |
| 1900 | Oyster Express | Sent through by the B&O, the Oyster Express completed a record trip of 728 miles in just 20 hours. |
| 1910, Nov 18 | Train Collision | An Akron-Wadsworth Trolley (NOT&L) collided with an A.&B.B.R.R. train at Tuscarawas Road. There were twenty six passengers on the trolley but only four injuries were reported. The trolley hit a boxcar carrying Barber Matches. The trolley was reported to have turned over. |
| 1912 | Presidential Visit | Teddy Roosevelt's train stopped near Downtown at the C.A.&C. station. Five thousand people were in attendance. |
| 1915 | Liberty Bell | The famed Liberty Bell traveled through Barberton on its way to Cleveland. |
| 1920 ? | Moby Dick | A fifty-five foot sixty-eight ton whale sat at the Erie freight depot on Fourth Street. The whale was a traveling exhibit and was open to the public twenty-four hours a day for several days. The oder from its rotting carcus was reported to have lasted even after it went on its way. |
| 1923, Aug 07 | Funeral Train | President Warren Harding's funeral train made a stop in Barberton in route to Washington D.C. |
| 1927, Mar | Candy | Worlds largest shipment of candy passed through town. Ten boxcars containing 2,000,000 candy bars (400,000 pounds) |
| 1940 | Demolition | Pennsylvania passenger station (former Cleveland, Akron & Columbus) was torn down. |
| 1947, Aug 01 | First Diesel Electric | The first of Erie's Diesel Electric Passenger locomotives passed through Barberton. |
| 1951, Apr 29 | Derailment | An Erie passenger train traveling at 60 mph struck an Ohio National Guard Tank, at Fairview Ave., killing four. |
| 1984 | $140,000 Grant | A.&B.B. receives 140,000 dollars from the state government for improvements. |
| 1986 | 1.4 million for improvements | A.&B.B. receives 1.4 million dollars from the federal government for improvement to rail yards in Akron and Rittman. |
| 1988 | Derailment | One crew member dies on a CSX freight train when his train collided with another near Snyder Ave. |
| 1994 | ABC | A&BBR is sold to ABC for $1,000,000.00 |