Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — Immense American Railroad Line. [ARTICLE]

Immense American Railroad Line.

If the tracks of one of the great eastern railroad systems were laid in a single line there would be enough to build a standard gauge railroad around the world and double-track it from New York to Kansas City. The exact length of all the railroad lines in the system, whether single, double, triple or quadruple tracked is n,823 miles. Of these lines, 3,761 miles have two or more tracks, 828 miles have three tracks and 637' miles of track tn the sidings, excluding the thousands of connecting sidings owned by industrial and other plants.