Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — Standard Railway Ganges. [ARTICLE]

Standard Railway Ganges.

At the last meeting of railway engineers, four-foot eight and a half inch gauge was adopted, it being considered the most practicable, and at this date over 43,000 miles of railroad in the United States are of this gauge. The narrow gauge is three feet, and there are over 9,000 miles in America, not counting the private lines. The total number of miles of railway in the United States is put down at 73,000, nearly as much as all Europe. The longest line (not counting the branches) is the Union Pacific—l,o33 miles. The smallest organized road in the wpjld is

the Wood River Branch railroad, of Rhode Island, which is six miles, and has eight daily passenger trains.