As leading Wabash F-7#660 with two F-7B's approached the passing siding, it passed westbound train 89 with four F-7's on the point hauling auto parts cars at Chapin, Illinois at milepost 457 on Fe... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Two sets of power, PA-1 1052 with E-7 1002 and GP-9 495 with F-7(A) 711 are waiting for Combine Train #2 the WABASH CANNONBALL and BANNER BLUE from St. Louis, Missouri. The two sets of power w... (more)

Moving at track speed the Wabash Cannon Ball rushed through Litchfield, Illinois on May 04, 1955. E-8 #1005 crosses the CB&Q tracks on its way to St. Louis with an all heavy-weight consist. Phot... (more)

On October 01, 1956, westbound train 89 with two Wabash F7's on the point hauling a consist of merchandise with two old 50' outside brace wooden box cars at Farmdale, Illinois near St. Louis. P... (more)

Sometimes Wabash Train Masters led trains through Decatur. One such occasion occurred on April 2, 1966 when #553 handled an extra through town. Photo by Bill Warren, from my collection.

Wabash Railroad FA1 1202A and its mates are seen in the yard at Peru Indiana in 1959. From my collection, Dennis Schmidt photo.

Between Buffalo, N.Y. and Windsor, Ontario the Wabash St. Thomas Division ran across Canada. Canadian-built motive power was almost exclusively on this two hundred and twenty miles division. The ... (more)

Wabash E-8 1004 leading the Chicago to St. Louis "Banner Blue" leaving the Decatur Station for the remaining one hundred and thirteen mile trip to St. Louis on February 21, 1958. Photo... (more)

Wabash E8 #1006 slowly accelerates out of Chicago's Dearborn Station with train 121 the Blue Bird for its run to St. Louis in November 1959. Photo by Al Holtz, from my slide collection.

Wabash EMD GP7 450-483 (built 1950-53) From my collection, photo by Bill Warren.

Wabash EMD NW2 switchers numbered 347-352. Al Holtz photographer, from my collection.

Two Wabash GP9's equipped with steam generators for passenger service, near Dearborn Station in September 1964. Al Holtz photographer, from my collection.

Wabash GE U25B numbered 500-514. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer name listed on slide.

Photographer unknown. Image scanned from a slide that was purchased at a Chicagoland train show in the mid 1970s. The scene appears to be from the early to mid 1960s era, but the state being Illin... (more)