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The ‘Wabash 50'
Few, if any railroads, duplicated what the Wabash Railroad did in 1930 and '31 when it ordered 50 big locomotives from the ...
Best bet to rename Metra rail lines: Use history, geography as a guide
To address this, Metra is seeking rider input on two proposed naming systems through a public survey. This move is both ...
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Historian provides overview of early Chartiers Valley railroads
“The railroad did well. They did, indeed, go into service a year later and rain trains. The very first train out of the Wabash Terminal was an excursion train to St. Louis,” Oyler ...
'What's a Boilermaker?' Jimmy Fallon has questions about Purdue's nickname
Purdue's sports teams are named in honor of the big, burly "boilermakers" who worked on big, heavy metal boilers like those ...
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RAILWAY BRIDGE COLLAPSES.; Thirty-one Big Four Freight Cars Fall Into the Wabash River -- One Man Killed, Another Dying.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 23 -- The west span of the "Big Four" railroad bridge across the Wabash River in this city gave way this afternoon just as east-bound Freight Train No. 96 was crossing ...
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‘Passenger traffic declined so much’: Chartiers Valley railroads met same fate as train travel nationwide
the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway; the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railroad; and the Chartiers Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The latter ran from Carnegie to Washington, ...