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((Short description|American Class I railroad))
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The '''Wabash Railroad''' ((reporting mark|WAB)) was a [[Class I railroad]] that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of [[Ohio]], [[Indiana]], [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Michigan]], and [[Missouri]] and the province of [[Ontario]]. Its primary connections included [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]; [[Kansas City, Missouri]]; [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]; [[Buffalo, New York]]; [[St. Louis, Missouri]]; and [[Toledo, Ohio]].

The Wabash's major freight traffic advantage was the direct line from Kansas City to Detroit, without going through St. Louis or Chicago. Despite being merged into the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]] (N&W) in 1964, the Wabash company continued to exist on paper until the N&W merged into the [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] (NS) in 1982.

At the end of 1960 Wabash operated 2,423 miles of road on 4,311 miles of track, not including [[Ann Arbor Railroad (1895–1976)|Ann Arbor]] and [[New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad|NJI&I]]; that year it reported 6,407&nbsp;million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 164&nbsp;million passenger-miles.((citation needed|date=December 2013))

==Origin of name==

[[Image:1886 Wabash.jpg|thumb|300px|1886 system map]]
The source of the Wabash name was the [[Wabash River]], a ((convert|475|mi|km| adj = on ))-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest [[Ohio]] near [[Fort Recovery, Ohio|Fort Recovery]], across northern [[Indiana]] to [[Illinois]] where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the [[Ohio River]], of which it is the largest northern tributary. The name ''Wabash'' is an [[anglicization]] of the French name for the river, ((lang|fr|Ouabache)). French traders named the river after the native [[Miami-Illinois language|Miami tribe]]'s word for the river.

==Corporate history==

===Merger tree===
The Wabash Railroad resulted from numerous mergers or acquisitions as shown by this table:<ref>''RAILROADS IN NORTH AMERICA; Some Historical Facts and An Introduction to an Electronic Database of North American Railroads and Their Evolution'' by M. C. Hallberg (April 24, 2006) [http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/c/mch/railroad/] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015033/http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/c/mch/railroad/|date=2008-05-12))</ref>

*Norfolk Southern Railway (1982)
**Norfolk and Western Railway (1964)
***Wabash Railroad (1941)
****Wabash Railway (1931)
*****Wabash Railroad (1889)
******Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway (1904–1908) later Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway
*******Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
******Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway (1879)
*******[[Council Bluffs and St. Louis Railway]] (1877)
******Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway
*******Great Western Railway of Illinois 1865
********Sangamon and Morgan Railroad 1853
*********Northern Cross Railway 1847
*******Illinois and Southern Iowa Railroad 1865
*******Quincy and Toledo Railroad 1865
*******Toledo and Wabash Railway 1865
********Wabash and Western Railroad 1958
********Toledo and Wabash Railroad 1858
*********Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad 1858
**********Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad 1856
**********Toledo and Illinois Railroad 1856
*******Warsaw and Peoria Railroad 1865

===Pre-Civil War===
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.  The earliest predecessor of the Wabash System was the [[Northern Cross Railroad]], which was the first railroad built in Illinois.<ref>((cite journal | url = http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abonw.Html | title = The Railroads of the "Old Northwest" Before the Civil War | first = Frederic L. | last = Paxson | author-link = Frederic L. Paxson | volume = XVII Part 1 | journal = Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters | date = October 1912 | access-date = 2017-07-17 | pages = 250 ))</ref>

The '''Toledo and Illinois Railroad''' was chartered April 20, 1853, in [[Ohio]] to build from [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] on [[Lake Erie]] west to the [[Indiana]] state line. The '''Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad''' was chartered in Indiana on August 19 to continue the line west through [[Wabash, Indiana|Wabash]] into [[Illinois]] towards [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and the two companies merged August 4, 1856, to form the '''Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad''' with a total length of 243 miles.<ref>''Preliminary report on the Eighth Census 1860'' by United States Census Bureau (Washington DC: 1862), page 226 [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1860e.zip]</ref>

((cns|date=July 2017|The company soon went bankrupt and was sold at [[foreclosure]]. The '''Toledo and Wabash Railroad''' was chartered October 7, 1858, and acquired the Ohio portion October 8. The '''Wabash and Western Railroad''' was chartered on September 27 and acquired the Indiana portion on October 5.  On December 15, the two companies merged as the '''Toledo and Wabash Railway'''. That company merged with the '''Great Western Railway of Illinois''', the '''Illinois and Southern Iowa Railroad''', the '''Quincy and Toledo Railroad''' and the '''Warsaw and Peoria Railroad''' to form the final '''Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway'''.))

===Post-Civil War===
[[File:1900sWabashmap.jpg|left|thumb|Wabash system map, early 20th century]]
It was this group of railroads that formed the beginning of the Wabash System with the rename in 1877.

Later mergers and reorganizations formed the '''Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway''' on November 7, 1879, and '''Wabash Railroad''' on August 1, 1889. Financier [[John Whitfield Bunn]] was one of several capitalists who were instrumental in the consolidation of the Wabash System.

The first repair shops were located in [[Springfield, Illinois]] along South 9th Street. These were the primary back shops from the mid-1800s to 1905. In 1873, the former shops of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern (formerly the [[North Missouri Railroad]]) at [[Moberly, Missouri]] were inherited, which employed about 1,200 and built most of the system's freight and passenger cars. However, in 1902 President J. Ramsey Jr. announced that a new shop site was needed to handle the increased demand for repairs. Seventy-eight acres of land were purchased on the east side of [[Decatur, Illinois]], which became the primary back shops until the end of steam. By the 1920s the East Decatur Shops employed 1,500 workers, with an additional 1,000 employed in the adjacent yard and offices.<ref>Starr, Timothy. The Back Shop Illustrated, Volume 2: Midwest Region</ref>

===Early 20th century===
[[Image:Wabash RR 1910.jpg|thumb|left|Preferred Share certificate of the Wabash Railroad Company, issued 17 January 1910]]
[[Image:1887 Wabash cover.jpg|thumb|300px|Cover of system [[Public transport timetable|timetable]], 1887]]

In 1904, the [[Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway]] was formed and acquired control of the [[Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (1899-1916)|Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad]], giving the Wabash access to [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], as the final step in an attempt to break the near-monopoly of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] (PRR) and [[New York Central Railroad]] for traffic to the east. However, the Wabash had overextended itself, and the WPT went bankrupt in 1908; it would later become part of the [[Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway]]. The Wabash Railroad itself was sold at [[foreclosure]] July 21, 1915, and reorganized October 22 as the Wabash Railway.
[[File:Wabash Box Car No. 49114.jpg|thumbnail|This wooden box car, owned by the Wabash Railroad, was built in the 1920s and assigned to the Studebaker plant in South Bend, Indiana.]]
The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] acquired loose control<!--what percent? 131,700 shares preferred and 191,900 shares common--> of the Wabash in 1927 by buying stock through its [[Pennsylvania Company]]. In 1929 the [[Interstate Commerce Commission]] charged the PRR with violating the [[Clayton Antitrust Act]]. The ruling was appealed, and in 1933 the [[Circuit Court]] ruled that the control was for investment only and did not violate the act.

The Wabash Railway again entered [[receivership]] on December 1, 1931. The Wabash Railroad, controlled by the PRR, was organized in July 1941 and bought the Wabash Railway on December 1.

===Late 20th century===
[[File:Wabash E8A 1012 with Train 4, The Wabash Cannonball, at the Dabville, IL station on October 28, 1962 (24051486646).jpg|thumb|''The Wabash Cannonball'' at the Danville, Illinois, station on October 28, 1962]]
In fall of 1960, the PRR agreed to a lease of the Wabash by the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]].((citation needed|date=February 2011))

The PRR's [[Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad]] assumed control of the Wabash's((citation needed|date=February 2011)) Ann Arbor on December 31, 1962. On October 16, 1964, the [[New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad]] (Nickel Plate Road) merged into the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]], and the N&W leased the Wabash and [[Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway]].

On March 31, 1970, the [[Pennsylvania Company]] exchanged its last Wabash shares for N&W common stock; that stock was later divested as a condition of the 1968 merger into [[Penn Central Transportation]]. Because it was only leased, as opposed to merged outright, the Wabash Railroad continued to trade its stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

The N&W and the [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] merged in 1982, although the Wabash continued to exist on paper. NS formally merged the Wabash into the N&W in November 1991.<ref name="burns" />((rp|93–94))

==Major routes==
((more citations needed section|date=December 2013))

===Windsor - Buffalo /Niagara Falls ===

In 1897 the  Wabash  leases  the  eastern  lines  of  the  former  Great  Western  Railway  between Windsor and Buffalo, which was amalgamated with the Grand Trunk in 1882. Charles M. Hays, president  of  the  Grand  Trunk  and  former  president  of  the Wabash,  secures  a  trackage  rights agreement  to  give  the  Wabash  operating  rights  in  Canada.  Its  Canadian  headquarters  are located in St. Thomas because it is roughly equidistant between Detroit and Niagara Falls.

<ref>((Citation |last=Bergen |first=Emily |title=History of the Wabash Railroad |date=July 2013 |url=https://stthomaspubliclibrary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Wabash.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422110740/https://stthomaspubliclibrary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Wabash.pdf |publisher=St. Thomas Public Library |archive-date=2022-04-22))</ref>

===Toledo–Hannibal===
The [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] to Hannibal Line was constructed in 1855. The line out of the Illinois River valley from Griggsville to Baylis had the steepest ruling grade on the Wabash, almost 2%, which required helpers in steam era. After World War II, the line was relocated to ease the grade. In 1955, passenger service was discontinued, and by 1989, the line from [[Maumee, Ohio|Maumee]] to [[Liberty Center, Ohio]], was abandoned. The portion from Liberty Center to the western border of Ohio is operated by a shortline railroad. The abandoned section was converted for use as the south fork of the [[Wabash Cannonball Trail]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://wabashcannonballtrail.org/|title=Welcome to Wabash Cannonball Trail))</ref>

The Maumee-[[Montpelier, Ohio]], section was abandoned by NS in 1990, and makes up the North fork of the Wabash Cannonball Trail. It is the longest [[rail trail]] in Ohio.

After the breakup of [[Conrail]] in 1998, NS connected the small remaining segment from Maumee to its [[Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway|Chicago Main]], allowing it to access Maumee via a shorter route. This caused the abandonment of the west side of the [[Toledo Terminal Railroad]].

===Detroit–Chicago===
This line covers the 3rd (Montpelier-Detroit) and 4th (Montpelier-Clarke Jct.–B&OCT+SC&S–State Line–C&WI) Districts of the Wabash.

The Wabash was part of the Union Belt of Detroit, a joint switching operation started with the Pere Marquette and later the PRR joined.

Detroit-Saint Louis passenger trains:
*Detroit Limited (Pullman)
*St. Louis Limited (Pullman) (westbound counterpart to the Detroit Limited)
*[[Wabash Cannonball#Namesakes|Cannon Ball]]

Detroit-Chicago passenger Trains:
*Detroit Arrow (joint with PRR)
*Chicago Arrow (joint with PRR) (westbound counterpart to the Detroit Arrow)

The Montpelier-Chicago line was started in the early 1890s, allowing the Wabash to give up trackage rights over the Erie (Chicago and Atlantic).

===Chicago–St. Louis===
[[File:Wabash Blue Bird.JPG|thumb|right|The ''Blue Bird'''s "Vista-Dome" dome parlor-observation car in the 1950s.]]
Completed in 1880 from Bement to Chicago, using the Chicago & Western Indiana as a terminal line. The Wabash became a joint owner of the C&WI along with founder Chicago & Eastern Illinois and other railroads. It comprises the 6th, 7th and 8th Districts of the Decatur Division. Trackage between Manhattan and Gibson City was abandoned by NS, for rights on CN (IC).

Passenger trains:
* ''[[Blue Bird (train)|Blue Bird]]''
* ''Banner Blue''
* ''Wabash Banner Limited''
((clear))

===Council Bluffs, Iowa – Brunswick, Missouri===
This line has the highest point on the Wabash at [[Dumfries, Iowa]] (1242' above sea level). Most of the line was abandoned by N&W in 1984.<ref>ICC Decision AB-10 (SUB NO. 27)</ref> The Wabash trackage between Brunswick and Council Bluffs comprised the 18th and 19th Districts, with the dividing point being [[Stanberry, Missouri]].

===Iowa===
The [[Iowa Southern Railroad]] (ISR) took over 61.5 miles of the Wabash in Iowa to the Missouri state line between Council Bluffs and [[Blanchard, Iowa]]. On August 22, 1988, the line was cut back to serve only Council Bluffs. In August 1990 the remaining Iowa Southern line in Council Bluffs was sold to the [[Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railroad|Council Bluffs & Ottumwa Railroad]]. In May 1991 the CBOA was sold to the [[Council Bluffs Railway]], an [[OmniTrax]] subsidiary. [[Iowa Interstate]] purchased CBR on July 1, 2006.<ref>((cite press release|date= July 11, 2006|title= IAIS announces the acquisition of CBGR|url= http://www.iaisrr.com/sites/iaisrr.com/files/IAIS_Acquires_CBGR_07_11_2006.pdf|url-status= dead|location= Cedar Rapids, Iowa|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012023/http://www.iaisrr.com/sites/iaisrr.com/files/IAIS_Acquires_CBGR_07_11_2006.pdf|archive-date= December 21, 2013|access-date=2019-11-22))</ref> The 66-mile route is abandoned between Council Bluffs and Blanchard and was converted for use as the ''[[Wabash Trace]] Trail''.<ref>((cite web|url=http://wabashtrace.connections.net/wbthome2.html|title=wabashtrace.connections.net))</ref>

===Missouri===
A 93-mile portion of the Council Bluffs–St. Louis line in Missouri between [[Blanchard, Iowa]], and [[Lock Springs, Missouri|Lock Springs]] was sold to the [[Northern Missouri Railroad]] and began operations on February 13, 1984. Operations on that line were discontinued in June 1986.

The Wabash Railroad ran their passenger trains that came into St. Louis on a 7-mile stretch of track that ran from Grand Ave (through a rail yard near Vandeventer Avenue), through University City (at Delmar Station) to a junction at Redmond Ave. in Ferguson, where the Ferguson station (now an ice cream parlor) was at North Florissant and Carson Ave., and where it met up with the current Norfolk Southern mainline. After passenger service was discontinued, trains on this stretch were reduced to one westbound symbol freight and one local per day. Norfolk Southern, who took over the line after the merger, abandoned the stretch in 1988. The Bi-State Development Agency purchased the line, which is now operated by [[MetroLink (St. Louis)|MetroLink]]. MetroLink light rail trains run on the portion from north of the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL) to Grand Ave, while the north portion is now the Ted Jones Trail, which runs from Florissant Road at UMSL up to Redmond Ave., where the old junction was located.<ref name=":1">((cite web|url=http://www.urbanrail.net/am/slou/saint-louis.htm|title=St. Louis Metrolink|website=UrbanRail.Net|access-date=2016-04-10))</ref>

Norfolk & Western abandoned the track between Lock Springs and Chillicothe in 1983, and salvaged this portion of the line in 1985.

Thirty-seven miles of track between [[Chillicothe, Missouri|Chillicothe]] and [[Brunswick, Missouri|Brunswick]] was sold to the Green Hills Rural Development, Inc., a Missouri economic development group organized as a non-profit corporation, in 1985. The line was leased, by order of the ICC, to the [[Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority]] (CBRM) on July 24, 1987. On April 1, 1990, the line was leased to the [[Wabash and Grand River Railway]] (WGR). The WGR's lease was terminated on December 1, 1993, due to severe flood damage on the line, and the line reverted to CBRM.

In 2003, during a dispute caused by inter-community rivalries and jealousies over industrial development along the line, the owner, Green Hills Rural Development, Inc. "sold" the railroad to the City of Chillicothe, MO, (all real estate, rails, tools, rolling stock and locomotives) for $32,500. Thereafter, the line was immediately appraised for $1.53&nbsp;million, not including rolling stock or other tools or equipment and inventory of the short line railroad.

On December 8, 2006, the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune reported that the city of Chillicothe sold the majority, about ((convert|30|mi)), of the railroad to Seattle-based Montoff Transportation, LLC for $976,000. The part of the railroad that was sold had been embargoed since 2004. The city still owns the railroad to the city's industrial park and to a location just east of Chillicothe, where future development is planned. Today, the part of the railroad south of Norville has been abandoned and dismantled. On January 29, 2008, The Chillicothe City Press reported that the city council had voted to buy back the right of way previously sold to Montoff Transportation, paying $10 to acquire the 100' wide by 29-mile long corridor. The stated intention was to gradually develop a trail. The report further stated that, though Montoff had the right as part of salvaging the rails to remove the bridges along the right of way, the cost to do so had been excessive. Instead, the deteriorated decks, which were sufficient for light duty use such as a trail, were being left.

===Moberly–Des Moines===
The Moberly-to-Des Moines line consisted of the 15th & 16th Districts of the Moberly Division, with the dividing point between the two districts being [[Moulton, Iowa|Moulton]], Iowa. The line had a good traffic base up until the early 1970s, when traffic began to fall off precipitously. Freight traffic included coal mined in Iowa (prior to 1960), agricultural goods, farm machinery, and paper products. A change of personnel in customer service at Des Moines brought about a resurgence in business in the late 1970s and into the 1980s – so much so that NS largely re-built the line with newer, heavier steel and continuous welded rail in the mid-1980s. The Moberly-to-Des Moines line had few local industries shipping on it in the 1980s in either northern Missouri or southern Iowa, however, and served primarily as a "bridge" to get the NS to the Des Moines market.

During the early 1990s, NS began to look for ways to save on track outlays and maintenance, and a deal was hammered out with the [[Burlington Northern Railroad|Burlington Northern]] (BN) to share access to Des Moines over the old [[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad|Chicago, Burlington and Quincy]] (CBQ) "K Line" which paralleled the Mississippi River from Hannibal, Mo. north to Burlington, Iowa. From there, haulage rights were secured to Des Moines over the BN mainline to Albia, then northward to Des Moines on the old Albia joint trackage. A portion of the line north of Moulton was saved in order to provide access to the national rail system by the [[Appanoose County Community Railroad|Appanoose County Community Railroad (APNC)]].

The last carded NS train on the Moberly-Des Moines line ran in 1994. The Moberly-to-Moulton segment in Iowa was used extensively in 1993 during the Midwestern Floods of that year, as many observers noted that it was one of the few north–south through routes that were "above sea level" during the flooding. Unfortunately, this was not a factor that could have been used to save the line. Today the line's right-of-way has not been preserved, and as of 1997 the line was completely dismantled and is quickly being consumed by other land uses.

==Major freight customers 1960==
((Columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*Ford - Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo, Kansas City, Buffalo
*Pillsbury Company - Springfield, Illinois
*[[A. E. Staley]] - [[Decatur, Illinois]]
*A. P. Green Firebrick - Mexico, Missouri
*Archer Daniel Midland Company - Decatur, Illinois
*Detroit Union Produce Terminal 
*Lauhoff Grain Company - Danville, Illinois
*International Salt - Detroit, Michigan
*Central Stone - Huntington, Missouri
*Granite City Steel - Granite City, Illinois
*Acme Fast Freight - Detroit, Kansas City<ref>''Principal Industries showing 1960 Carloads and Interchanges''; Collection of Wabash Railroad Historical Society [http://www.wabashrhs.org]</ref>((failed verification|date=December 2013))
))

*

==Passenger trains==
[[File:St. Louis-Colorado Limited circa 1912.JPG|thumb|right|Observation car of the ''St. Louis-Colorado Limited''.]]
The Wabash had a fleet of passenger trains, including several [[streamliner]]s and domeliners:
((Columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*''[[Blue Bird (train)]]'', inaugurated in 1938
*''Banner Blue''
*''Cannon Ball''
*''[[City of Kansas City]]'', built by [[American Car and Foundry Company|ACF]]
*''[[City of St. Louis (train)|City of St. Louis]]'' (in partnership with [[Union Pacific|UP]])
*''City of Decatur''
*''Des Moines Limited''
*''Detroit Arrow'' (in partnership with [[Pennsylvania Railroad|PRR]])
*''Detroit Limited''
*''Kansas City Express''
*''Midnight Limited''
*''Omaha Limited''
*''Pacific Coast Special''
*''Red Bird''
*''St. Louis-Colorado Limited'' (in partnership with UP)
*''St. Louis Limited''
*''St. Louis Special''
*''[[Southland (train)|Southland]]'' (in partnership with PRR and [[Louisville & Nashville|L&N]])
*''[[Wabash Cannonball (train)|Wabash Cannon Ball]]''
))
The first passenger trains to be dieselised used [[EMD E7]] locomotives, and later [[ALCO PA]]s and [[EMD E8]]s.

===Wabash Cannonball===
The name of this [[Wabash Cannonball|legendary train]] became famous with the 1904 revision of an 1882 song about the "Great Rock Island Route."  Yet the name was never borne by a real train until the Wabash Railroad christened its Detroit-St. Louis day train as the ''[[Wabash Cannon Ball (train)|Wabash Cannon Ball]]'' in 1949.<ref name="schafer" /> The train survived until the creation of [[Amtrak]] in 1971, when it was discontinued. On October 26 and 27, 2013, Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's [[Nickel Plate 765|Nickel Plate Road 765]], in conjunction with the Norfolk Southern Railway's "[[21st Century Steam]]" program, pulled a 225-mile (362-km) round-trip excursion, retracing the ''Cannon Ball's'' former route between Fort Wayne and Lafayette, Indiana.

== Heritage unit ==
As a part of Norfolk Southern's 30th anniversary in 2012, the company painted 20 new locomotives into predecessor schemes.  NS #1070, an [[EMD SD70ACe]] locomotive, was painted into the Wabash "Blue Bird" paint scheme.

==Rail to trail==

Several portions of the old Wabash Railroad right-of-way have been [[Rail to trail|converted to recreational use]], including the [[Wabash Cannonball Trail]] in northwest [[Ohio]], the [[Wabash Trail (Sangamon County)|Wabash Trail]] and [[Wauponsee Glacial Trail]] in [[Illinois]] and the [[Wabash Trace Nature Trail]] in Iowa.

==See also==
((Portal|Railways))
*[[Delmar Boulevard station]]

==References==
((Reflist|refs=
<ref name="burns">((cite book | last=Burns | first=James B. | title=Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification | year=1998 | publisher=[[Quorum Books]] | location=Westport, CT | isbn=1567201660 | oclc=36977282 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_YEIj8AMEcC))</ref>
<ref name="schafer">((Schafer-More-Classic|page=145))</ref>
))

==Notes==
http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/Wabash/Wabash%20System%20Map%2010-1907.pdf Wabash Railroad System map 1907

==Bibliography==
* Grant, Roger H. 2004. ''A History of the Wabash Railroad Company''. Northern Illinois University Press
*Middleton, William D., George M. Smerk, and Roberta L. Diehl, eds. ''Encyclopedia of North American Railroads.'' (Indiana University Press, 2007). pp 1085–86
* Swartz, William. "The Wabash Railroad." ''Railroad History'' 133 (1975): 5-30.
*((cite book | author=Lewis, Edward A.| title=The historical guide to North American railroads – 2nd Ed.| publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]]|location=Waukesha, Wisconsin| year=2000| isbn=0-89024-356-5))
*((cite book | author=Stindt, Fred A. | title=American Shortline Railway Guide – 5th Ed.| publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]]|location=Waukesha, Wisconsin| year=1996| isbn=0-89024-290-9))
*((cite book | author=Walker, Mike| title=SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America – Prairies East and Ozarks| publisher=Steam Powered Publishing| location=Upper Harbledown, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom|year=2004| isbn=1-874745-17-X))
*((cite book | author= Baird, Victor| title=Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District| publisher=Erstwhile Publications | location=Ft. Wayne, IN|year=2013| isbn=978-0-615-52148-0))

==External links==
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*[http://www.wabashrhs.org Wabash Railroad Historical Society]
*[http://www.2-8-2.com/Wabash-ETT.html Wabash Time Tables]
*[http://www.mrym.org Monticello Railway Museum]
*((Whmc stl photodb|keywords=Wabash+Railroad|title=Wabash Railroad))
*[http://history.montgomeryco.com/History/tabid/604/ID/167/Wabash-Railroad.aspx Wabash Railroad], Historical Society of Montgomery County Illinois
*[http://laurent.aublette.free.fr/histo/wab_hist.html List and Family Trees of North American Railroads]
*[http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1850.html History of the Railroads of Ohio]
*[http://www.prrths.com/PRR_hagley_intro.htm PRR Chronology] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930032929/http://www.prrths.com/PRR_hagley_intro.htm |date=2006-09-30 ))
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151104155926/http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_1.asp Railroad History Database]
*((cite web | title=Abandonment Report| work=Iowa Office of Rail Transportation| url=http://www.iowarail.com/pdfs/chronabandonments.PDF| access-date=March 2, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050907190554/http://www.iowarail.com/pdfs/chronabandonments.PDF <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = September 7, 2005))
*[http://www.opsig.org/industrydb/ opsig.org]

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