Description: ATTENTION: Our website was hacked, but you can still order the last remaining Wabash books here on eBay. (We cannot get any recourse from the web provider, so a rebuilding of the website is in progress with a different service. The website included reviews, a blog and previews of our next book.If you wish to have your copy autographed by the author, Victor Baird, please contact us immediately. Note that the book is shipped in the U.S. USPS Media Mail. DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER ISBN 978-0-615-52148-0 Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013948259 Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District, published by Erstwhile Publications, was one of only a few railroad books nominated for the prestigious George M. and Constance W. Hilton Book Award in 2015, administered by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. With this purchase you will be getting one of a limited edition, direct from the publisher, as no more books will be printed. Out of the 1,200 books printed, less than 10 are left. All the books are numbered***. It is a hardcover, 314 page book with 11 chapters, four appendices, glossy paper, and a quality Smyth-Sewn binding printed and published in the USA. Most of the hundreds of photographs are black & white, but there is a color section in the back. The book tells the story of a Wabash Railroad line that ran from Northwest Ohio to Chicago, across Northern Indiana. Officially completed in 1893 as the "Chicago Extension", the Fourth District (the Gary District under N&W) was an integral part of the shortest railroad between Detroit and Chicago, the first Wabash district dieselized (1950), and had the distinction of operating the last mixed train in Indiana (1962). It was certainly a colorful railroad that forwarded perishables, automobile parts, automobiles and merchandise, and livestock, either on the hoof or slaughtered. In addition to passenger trains, Orient silk from the Pacific Northwest to New York also traversed the line in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Many travelers utilized the railroad to visit the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Though a scholarly history with hundreds of endnotes, a large bibliography and large index, there are hundreds of photographs, maps, timetables, etc. And much of the story is told in the words of railroaders who worked the line back to the very early days. But the book also includes a postscript after the lease of the Wabash to Norfolk & Western in 1964 and describes and illustrates what remains of the line in the Norfolk Southern era. Photos and information on successor operators include South Shore, Hillsdale County and Indiana Northeastern. This book also includes the most comprehensive history of the obscure Wabash Railroad Stroh (Indiana) Branch and associated Wabash Portland Cement Company, complete with photos, maps, track and a plant layout. Chapter 8 is an exhaustive, illustrated chapter on the last mixed train in Indiana as told in the words of a conductor who officiated on the train for many years. ***If you find a book on the open market that is NOT numbered with a green number in the inside front cover, please contact us.
Price: 39.95 USD
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
End Time: 2024-02-05T06:24:03.000Z
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