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Photos & Videos Photos Great Passenger Trains Wabash Railway – Image Gallery

Wabash Railway – Image Gallery

By | May 20, 2019

View images of passenger service on the road whose slogan was “Follow the Flag”

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A black and white photo of a train on the tracks
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks
Wabash’s Banner Blue
Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue at Chicago Ridge, Ill., August 1948.
Bob Borcherding
A black and white photo of a train on the tracks
A black and white photo of a close up of a locomotive sitting on the tracks
Wabash E7 1001
One of Wabash’s four E7’s, Nos. 1000–1003, built 1947; colors dark blue, gray, and white; blank dark blue panel was for train names, used only for a short time on one unit, assigned to the City of Kansas City.
Electro-Motive
A black and white photo of a close up of a locomotive sitting on the tracks
A black and white photo of passengers sitting in a lounge car
Parlor car in Wabash service
Heavyweight parlor-lounge car owned and operated by Pullman assigned to service on the Wabash.
Classic Trains coll.
A black and white photo of passengers sitting in a lounge car
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Wabash E7’s on the City of St. Louis
St. Louis–Cheyenne, Wyo., City of St. Louis arriving Denver on the Union Pacific with Wabash E7’s, which ran St. Louis–Denver for a time; November 1947.
R. H. Kindig
GL131202-4
A train departing a city on a cold winter day
Wabash’s Blue Bird
St. Louis–Chicago Blue Bird departing Decatur, Ill., with Pullman-Standard dome-parlor ahead of Budd dome-parlor-observation, March 1960.
R. R. Wallin
A train departing a city on a cold winter day
A black and white overhead shot of passengers walking to a train
Wabash’s Blue Bird
Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird at Dearborn Station, which Wabash shared with several other roads, including the Santa Fe.
Linn H. Westcott
A black and white overhead shot of passengers walking to a train
A black and white photo of the back of a locomotive
Wabash’s Banner Blue
Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue at Chicago Ridge, Ill., August 1948. The train carried an open-platform parlor-observation car until the mid-1960s.
Bob Borcherding
A black and white photo of the back of a locomotive
A black and white distant and overhead shot of a train leaving a station
Wabash Oreland Park suburban train
4-4-0 departing Dearborn Station, Chicago, with nameless local train to Oreland Park, Ill., 1931.
A. Johnson
A black and white distant and overhead shot of a train leaving a station
A black and white photo of a train with white smoke coming out of its chimney as it passes a building
Wabash’s Chicago Express and St. Louis Special
Pacific 668 leads combined trains 79 (Chicago Express) and 1 (St. Louis Special) out of Detroit in 1939; at Fort Wayne, Ind., the train will separate into Chicago and St. Louis sections.
Robert A. Hadley
A black and white photo of a train with white smoke coming out of its chimney as it passes a building
A locomotive travelling through a snowy city
Wabash Cannon Ball
St. Louis–Detroit Wabash Cannon Ball at Decatur, Ill., January 1961. Wabash had a total of four Alco PA’s.
R. R. Wallin
A locomotive travelling through a snowy city
A black and white photo of a locomotive picking up passengers at a station
Wabash Cannon Ball
St. Louis–Detroit Wabash Cannon Ball at Litchfield, Ill., March 1956. Engine 1007 was one of Wabash’s 14 E8’s.
John C. Illman
A black and white photo of a locomotive picking up passengers at a station
A black and white photo of two locomotives picking up passengers
Wabash’s Blue Bird and Wabash Cannon Ball
St. Louis–Chicago Blue Bird (left, powered by E8 1000) and St. Louis–Detroit Wabash Cannon Ball (right, with E8 1007) at Decatur, Ill., November 1953.
Walter A. Peters
A black and white photo of two locomotives picking up passengers
A black and white photo of a locomotive with white smoke coming out of its chimney
Wabash semi-streamlined Hudson
Class P-1 No. 700, first of seven 4-6-4s rebuilt by the Wabash from 2-8-2s in 1943; used mainly between St. Louis and Chicago, where 700 is pictured in 1950.
Wallace W. Abbey
A black and white photo of a locomotive with white smoke coming out of its chimney
A black and white photo of two locomotives travelling side by side
Wabash’s City of St. Louis
St. Louis–Cheyenne, Wyo., City of St. Louis overtaking a Rock Island freight train (exercising RI trackage rights on UP) west of Limon, Colo., 1949.
E. C. Storm
A black and white photo of two locomotives travelling side by side
A black and white photo of two locomotives turning a corner at the same time
Wabash’s Banner Blue
Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue backing into St. Louis Union Station as GM&O’s Ann Rutledge departs, February 1954.
Jim Scribbins
A black and white photo of two locomotives turning a corner at the same time
A black and white picture of empty seats inside a train
Wabash’s Blue Bird
Interior view of dome-parlor-observation car for Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird from front of car.
Classic Trains coll.
A black and white picture of empty seats inside a train
A black and white photo of a train with black smoke coming out of its chimney
Wabash’s Banner Blue
Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue at Landers, Ill., 1940s; photographer arranged smoke and steam effects with crew in advance.
H. W. Pontin
A black and white photo of a train with black smoke coming out of its chimney
A black and white photo of passengers boarding a train
Wabash’s Blue Bird
Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird ready for departure at Dearborn Station, Chicago.
Classic Trains coll.
A black and white photo of passengers boarding a train
A black and white photo of the inside of an empty dining passenger car
Wabash’s Blue Bird
Interior view of diner-lounge of Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird.
Budd Co.
A black and white photo of the inside of an empty dining passenger car
A black and white photo of a locomotive with smoke coming out of its chimney
Wabash’s Blue Bird
Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird just south of Palos Park, Ill., 1940s.
Richard J. Cook
A black and white photo of a locomotive with smoke coming out of its chimney
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