WABASH RAILROAD BRAKEMAN HAT BADGE, OLD SHELF STOCK

Description

Original old shelf stock WABASH RAILROAD brakeman hat badge.  Blackinton hallmark on reverse side. Measures approximately 3 5/8" wide and 1.25" high. Sold with two silver color fasteners. Please see photographs. Carefully shipped via USPS with tracking information.
Wabash Railroad
Wabash system map, early 20th century
The Wabash's
City of St. Louis
streamliner in the 1950s.
Overview
Headquarters
St. Louis
,
Missouri
Reporting mark
WAB
Locale
Midwestern United States
Ontario
Dates of operation
1837–1964
Successor
Norfolk and Western Railway
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft
8
+
1
⁄
2
in
(
1,435 mm
)
Length
2,524 miles (4,062 kilometres)
According to Wikipedia, The
Wabash Railroad
(
WAB
) was a Class 1 railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri and the province of Ontario.
The Wabash's major freight traffic advantage was the direct line from Kansas City to Detroit, without going through St. Louis or Chicago. Despite being merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad (N&W) in 1964, the Wabash company continued to exist on paper until the N&W merged into the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) in 1982.
At the end of 1960 Wabash operated 2,423 miles of road on 4,311 miles of track, that year it reported 6,407 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 164 million passenger-miles.