Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approved by ICC last week was a reorganization plan for the second major railroad to fall victim to depression-the 2,409-mile Wabash, in the courts since 1931 (the Seaboard has been in since 1930). The Wabash, known as "the road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere," has defaulted four times in 66 years, spent 22 of them in receivership. It lacks seaport and gateway terminals, depends on other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis...
JOANN JOHNSON Wabash, Minn...
...Commuters between Detroit and Chicago got a big boost in service with three new trains added to schedules at the same time: the Red Bird and Chicago Arrow on 4¾-hour schedules (Wabash); The Michigan on a 5-hour schedule (Michigan Central...
When Federal agents nabbed Martin Durkin (a pioneer Dillinger) and his petite moll in a Pullman drawing room, Carson arranged with the Wabash Railway for a prairie train stop, rushed reporters and photographers to the secret rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi...
Will Yale and Harvard go the road of Chicago and abandon intercollegiate football? Miller of Yale says no, and Bill Bingham says no. But small-time football has a way of dying on its feet. Take Chicago, for instance. They were playing in Wabash's league before they quit...