Re: largest? (was: Re: Still More Ohio)

hank Wrote:
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> 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

The OP referred to being the largest NG EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI...