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dougvv

May 27, 2015 02:17PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Hi,

The PRR route through Marion was originally part of the Grand Narrow Gauge Trunk - Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis. This line was to have been a big 36" gauge trunk line extending from Ohio to Texas. It failed for many reasons. The book American Narrow Gauge Railroads by George W Hilton covers this line very well.

When the TC&StL failed, the line was divide up and the PRR got the The section at Marion. It was sort of the way the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific was cut up in the c1980 bankruptcy.

Doug vV

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