Wabash System 2,663 Wheeling & Lake Erie 457 Missouri Pacific System[113] 3,920 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern[113] 313 St. Louis, Southwestern[113] 1,675 Texas & Pacific[113] 1,991 International & Great Northern[113] 1,159 Denver & Rio Grande[114] 2,778 Western Pacific[113] 979 ------ Total 15,935 _Moore Interests_ Rock Island System 8,144 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western[114] 1,052 Lehigh Valley[115] 1,431 ------ Total 10,627 ====== _Hill Interests_ Great Northern 7,397 Northern Pacific 6,281 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 10,443 Colorado & Southern 1,249 ------ Total 25,370 ====== _New Haven Interests_ New York, New Haven & Hartford 2,887 Boston & Maine 3,594 ------ Total 6,481 _Hawley Interests_ Minneapolis & St. Louis 1,027 Iowa Central 559 Toledo, St. Louis & Western 451 ’Frisco System 7,147 Chicago & Alton 1,025 Chesapeake & Ohio System 2,232 Missouri, Kansas & Texas 3,393 Hocking Valley 350 ------ Total 16,508 ====== _Philadelphia and Reading_ 2,137 Grand Total of above Groups and Systems 198,638 Total milage of railways in the United States, Dec. 31, 1916 397,014 For a more extended discussion see “National Consolidation of Railroads,” by George H. Lewis.