Welcome to the Internet home of the once late and great
Wabash Railroad Company
and
Michigan short lines and logging railroads.

Sorry but I do not have any Wabash employee information and I do not know where you can find this information.  The Wabash affectively vanished over 40 years ago and no corporations are required to keep past employee information that long.

What's new or new-ish?

April 23, 2008:  Don Williams of Georgia won a couple of my Wabash negatives and I asked him about his Wabash passenger car collection.  Don was kind enough to send some photos and description of the cars.  Take a look HERE.

April 18, 2008:  I have begun selling my collection of Wabash black and white negatives on eBay under the user ID of jngthings.  This will mean some changes to these pages as I will be removing photos that have been sold.  However, this will free up some space to expand the Michigan railroad pages and display Wabash photos that have not been sold.

The following Wabash pages have been started:

0-6-0 locomotives
0-8-0 locomotives
2-6-0 locomotives
2-6-2 locomotives
2-8-0 locomotives
2-8-2 locomotives
2-10-2 locomotives

4-4-0 locomotives
4-4-2 locomotives
4-6-0 locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
4-6-4 locomotives
4-8-2 locomotives
4-8-4 locomotives

Diesel locomotives
Passenger equipment
Freight equipment
Cabooses
Maintenance-of-way equipment
Stations and other lineside structures
Railroadiana.
Contributed Photos
Miscellaneous Photos

The following Michigan short lines have been started:

Ann Arbor Railroad
including Frankfort & Southeastern

Arcadia & Betsey River

Au Sable & Northwestern

Bear Lake & Eastern

Boyne City & Southeastern
Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena
Boyne City Railroad

Detroit & Charlevoix

Detroit & Mackinac

Detroit & Toledo Shore Line

Detroit Terminal

Detroit, Toledo & Ironton

Manistique & Lake Superior

Important note: some of the images posted on this web site were found on the Internet or are from photographs or color slides in my collection where the photographer is known or unknown.  If you see a problem with this or note a copyright violation, please contact me immediately and I will remove the suspect image(s).

Also, the images made from color slides on this site are not scans but are digital color slide copies made with a Nikon Coolpix 880 digital camera with color slide copier adapter.

Learn about downloading images and photographers.

These pages are not affiliated with the Wabash Railroad Historical Society.

For more info, send an email to: Wabash/Michigan Info.

                                                                                          Thank you,
                                                                                          Ye Old Webmaster.

Some other links of interest:                                                       

Wabash Photo Sources:                                                             
-  Wabash images and info                                                           
-  Wabash dome cars
-  Photos of the Forrest-Streator branch.
-  Otto Perry Photos
-  Edwardsville, Illinois area rail photos - Carl Farmer.

Aerial Photos and Topographic Maps

Real Railroads:
-  Ann Arbor Railroad
-  Columbia Terminal
-  Norfolk Southern Corp.

Railfan web sites and Museums (the asterisk * denotes new or updated links): 

*  Ann Arbor Railroad photos - Garry Kaluzny's present day photos.
-  Ann Arbor Railroad photos
-  Brad's Railroad Station
-  Carroll County Museum's photo archive.  Enter "Wabash Railroad" in the search window.  Delphi, Indiana is in Carroll County.
-  Columbia, MO Wabash station
-  Info about Great Lakes car ferries (including Wabash)  
-  Mad River & NKP Museum
-  Michigan-Railroads.com
-  Monticello Railroad Museum
-  New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois by Tom Kepshire.
-  Northern Indiana photos, info and history by Tom Kepshire.
-  Wabash Barbeque aka Excelsior Springs, MO Wabash station.
-  Wabash Paint Colors - chart for mixing colors on your PC!

We do not have any Wabash Railroad Employment Records:

We do not have any employment records or information.  If you are seeking information about a person, you can check to see if there is a record for the person at the Railroad Retirement Board.  The address is:

This organization has a web page that goes into the details of ordering these records for genealogical research at Railroad Retirement Board.   These records only date from about the mid-1930s.

You might also check the Norfolk Southern web site but I would not expect to find anything.  Corporations are not in the genealogy business and are only required to maintain former employment records for seven years.

However, if you have a question about where railroads ran and when, I have a collection of Official Railway Guides and maps and will be happy to try to answer your questions.  I, too, have an interest in genealogy.

Questions or comments? 

  visitors to this site.

These pages were created and are maintained by me.  Please do not repost, transmit, or disseminate any of the material found on this site without my express written permission of the authors of and contributors to this site!  Thank you.

These pages are intended for educational use only and are not affiliated in any way with the successors and predecessors of the Wabash Railroad Company.

Last updated 04/23/2008.