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Wabash 4-8-2 out of Detroit

By Angela Cotey | November 18, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

A Wabash Railroad Detroit–Decatur, Ill., freight departs Oakwood Yard outside the Motor City behind Mountain type 2812 in 1940.
Robert A. Hadley photo

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