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The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad ( AAR reporting mark: WAB) was a railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. Commonly referred to as the Wabash Railroad, it served a large area, including trackage in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Its primary connections included Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, St. Louis, Missouri and Toledo, Ohio.

In 1963, the Wabash and several other mid-western carriers, including its neighboring Nickel Plate Road, were merged into Norfolk & WesternNorfolk and Western Railway ( AAR reporting mark: NW , a US class 1 railroad, was formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It had headquarters and Roanoke, Virginia for most of its' 150 year existence. The company was famous for man (N&W) Railway to form a more competitive and successful system serving 14 states and a province of CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe on more than 7,000 miles of track.

The profitable N&W was itself combined with the Southern RailwayThe Southern Railway ( AAR designation SOU was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s. It was combined with the Norfolk & Western Railway to form Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982., another profitable carrier, to form Norfolk SouthernNorfolk Southern Corporation is a US publicly-traded stock corporation based in Norfolk, Virginia. The company controls a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS). The railway operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the Dist Corporation (NS) in 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du.