Wabash, Follow the Flag
The Wabash Railroad takes its name from the Wabash River. The Wabash is a 475-mile (764 km)-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, Ohio across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River. “Wabash” is an English spelling of the French name for the river, “Ouabache.” French traders named the river after the native Miami tribe’s word for the river.
At the end of 1960 Wabash operated 2,423 miles of road on 4,311 miles of track through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, and Ontario (see map).
The Wabash Railroad Merger Tree
1982 Norfolk Southern Railway
1964 Norfolk and Western Railway
1941 Wabash Railroad
1931 Wabash Railway
1908 Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway
1889 Wabash Railroad
1879 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway
1877 Council Bluffs and St. Louis Railway
1865 Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway
1865 Great Western Railway of Illinois
1853 Sangamon and Morgan Railroad
1847 Northern Cross Railway
1865 Illinois and Southern Iowa Railroad
1865 Quincy and Toledo Railroad
1865 Toledo and Wabash Railway
1958 Wabash and Western Railroad
1858 Toledo and Wabash Railroad
1858 Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad
1856 Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad
1856 Toledo and Illinois Railroad
1865 Warsaw and Peoria Railroad
Sources: The Wabash Railroad Historical Society and Wikipedia.
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