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Historic Forks of the Wabash is a historic museum park near Huntington, Indiana, that features several historic buildings, trails and remnants of the Wabash and Erie Canal. The location was the signing location of the historic Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash in 1838. [2] The park is located along the Wabash River.
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. The earliest predecessor of the Wabash System was the Northern Cross Railroad , which was the first railroad built in Illinois.
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society was formed in 1972 and currently has over 400 members and over 70 volunteers. The group was formed with one purpose in mind: to restore an old steam locomotive to operational use and see it running down the tracks again. The history of the group actually begins before the FWRHS was formally conceived.
The Wabash & Erie canal was 4 feet (1.2 m) deep and 100 feet (30 m) wide as this point. Other locks were at First St. and Byron St. The Canal was completed from Fort Wayne to Huntington on July 3, 1835, and from Toledo to Evansville, 459 miles (739 km), in 1854. The Canal preceded the railroad to Huntington by 20 years, spurring early settlement.
The former course of the Wabash River, running by the former site of the original Fort Recovery; the reproduction can be seen in the background, but it is not the original fort Forks of the Wabash at Huntington, Indiana U.S. Route 31 Business crossing of the Wabash River in Peru, Indiana
The foregoing does not include the following six additional corporations whose properties, aggregating 512.17 miles, were at one time a part of The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company but which now form a part of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company, and the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company.
The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
Delmar Boulevard station, also known as Delmar station, is a former railroad station on Delmar Boulevard in the West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The Wabash Railroad opened it in 1929 as part of grade separation project which raised Delmar Boulevard over its tracks. Delmar Boulevard was one of several Wabash branch stations in St ...