The Banner
The WRHS communicates
with its members through its publications. The Banner,
which is named after the Wabash Railroad publication of the same name,
contains feature-length articles and photographs, and is published two
or three times a year. While these articles vary greatly in subject
matter, they all pertain to the Wabash Railroad and/or its affiliates.
Past article subjects have included:
- passenger train consists
- coaling on the Wabash
- interlocking towers
- locomotive diagrams
- cabooses
- depots
- freight cars
- scale modeling
- passenger stations
Supplementing The Banner each year is a twelve-month
Wabash Railroad pictorial calendar, which is published at the end of
each calendar year. We also publish a quarterly newsletter, The
Extra Board, which contains time-sensitive information, WRHS
news, short articles, and modeling news.
Annual Meeting
Each year the WRHS sponsors an Annual Meeting at different
locations somewhere in former Wabash territory. WRHS members gather to
catch up on old times, trade Wabash history, hear guest speakers, show
off their modeling prowess and to share a banquet meal together. Past
meetings have been at Monticello, IL, Chicago, IL, St. Louis, MO,
Decatur, IL, Moberly, MO, Lafayette, IN, and Toledo, OH. Occasionally
the Annual Meeting is held jointly with other railroad preservation
societies.