Anyone remember the Wabash main across Missouri?

[Anonymous]

For obvious reasons, I can't, the N&W- WAbash merger took place about 25 years before I was born. Was it double-tracked west of the Mississippi River?
It's single track today, but there are a lot of double track lines that are now cut down to one track. Was the Wabash's crack train, the Cannonball pulled by class P-1 Hudsons or E units in the 1940's?

thanks in advance,
Christopher

[Anonymous]

"the first diesel road units were delivered to the moberly division in 1946...."
"the summer of 1949 saw powerful three unit emd's taking over the manefest assignments and the 'wabash cannonball...."
photo of an E 8 #1007 wabash cannonball from 1952.
all of above sourced from "wabash" donald heimburger.
as an aside the wabash cannonball ran from st louis to detroit. the song ( a great one) makes very little historical sense.

[UPTRAIN]

The only thing I know about on this topic is where the line is. [:D][}:)][:P][;)]

[Wdlgln005]

Looking at "Trackside Wabash" book, most of the pictures are from the Detroit division track. The Decatur-Hannibal line appears to be mostly single track.
There may be some double from Moberly to Kansas City where connections to the St Louis lines were made.

[kenneo]

Rode the "City of St. Louis" from Denver to St. Louis in 1961, and from Kansas city on, it was on the WABASH. What I remember is single track and train orders, and a few sidings. Did not meet or pass any trains.

[Anonymous]

I worked out of Decatur in 1966 and made several trips to Moberly. All 211 miles of this line through Hannibal was single track; much of it was handled by a bastardized form of Centralized Traffic Control where the dispatcher controlled the signals including entering and leaving sidings, but the switches were hand-operated. It was called Manual Block Remote Control. As I recall, it extended from Mosser interlocking at the west end of Decatur to Springfield, and from Hannibal to Moberly. Between Springfield and Hannibal was automatic block signal territory, with train orders. There hadn't been passenger trains across there for some years.

[n2mopac]

I'm too young to remember the Wabash in its day, but I lived in Carrollton along that line in the late 90's--the line which is now operated by Norfold Southern. From Carrollton to KC the line runs along side a BNSF (formerly ATSF) line, giving it the look of a double main, though the tracks are owned by separate railroads. I suppose it is possible that thrackage rights may have allowe this protion of the line to operate like a double main.
Ron