largest? (was: Re: Still More Ohio)

Snil Wrote:
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> Remnants of the Toledo Delphos and
> Burlington/Toledo Cincinnati & St. Louis (later
> NKP St. Louis division) outside Delphos, Ohio. As
> far as I can find, these few miles, and a short
> tourist railroad in Lebanon, Ohio are the only
> remains in Ohio of the largest narrow gauge road
> east of the Mississippi, and perhaps in the
> country.

Still a block from my books but I'm sure D&RG was bigger. During the period it was leasing the D&RGW Ry in the early 1880's it was over 2000 miles total. Even as late as the 1920's D&RGW had over 7 or 8 hundred miles (not counting RGS).
Utah & Northern may have been bigger at it's peak to, pushing 1000 miles, IIRC.
And i think the road that became SLSW (forget the name) aka Cotton Belt later on was bigger also.
Hank