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The name Wabash Railroad or Wabash Railway may refer to various corporate entities formed over the years using one or the other of these two names. The first railroad to use only Wabash and no other city in its name was the Wabash Railway in January 1877 which was a rename of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway formed on July 1, 1865.
Wabash Railroad No. 534, also known as Nancy, is the sole survivor of the B-7 class 0-6-0 switcher steam locomotive that was built by the American Locomotive Company in 1906. It was used by the Wabash as a yard switcher, until it was sold in 1954 to the Lake Erie and Fort Wayne Railroad as No. 1.
[2] [3] The Wabash Railroad's class P-1 comprised seven 4-6-4 steam locomotives rebuilt from 5 Class K-5 2-8-2's numbered 2600-2604 and 2 Class K-4 2-8-2's numbered 2743 and 2744 . The first five were constructed in 1943 and 1944 using the boilers from their unsuccessful K-5 class three-cylinder 2-8-2 locomotives that had been built by the ...
1300-1301 (low short hood) ordered by P&WV, 1302-1308 (low short hood, no dynamic brakes) ordered by Wabash Diesel locomotives acquired through 1964 mergers [ edit ]
The Wabash Cannon Ball was a passenger train on the Wabash Railroad that ran from 1950 to 1971. The train was named after the song "Wabash Cannonball".It was the second train to bear the name "Cannon Ball"; the first was the fast express Cannon Ball, which ran in the late 1800s to the early 20th century.
The 4th District would become the first Wabash district to be dieselized (operating with diesel locomotives instead of steam) in 1950 and the last rail line in Indiana to operate mixed trains in 1962. Wabash would continue to operate the line until the railroad was acquired by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), through lease in 1964 and ...
This was the standard light freight locomotive of the USRA types, and was of 2-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 1′D1′ in UIC classification. A USRA Light Mikado type locomotive donated to the National Museum of Transportation by the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway
The Wabash Alloys Locomotive is a GE 25-ton diesel-electric locomotive built in 1940–43. Little is known about its early life, but from around 1970, it worked at Wabash Alloys, a producer of aluminum alloys, at Haskell, Arkansas.