Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historical sizes of railroads

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:31, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Historical sizes of railroads

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This is a strange remnant of an older Wikipedia that has somehow escaped notice since 2005. It's a list of those railroad companies in North America which in 1948 had 1000 or more steam locomotives. It might be sourced. It's definitely not encyclopedic, and I don't see how it could be. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steam locomotive production, a similar article of the same vintage from the same author. Mackensen (talk) 00:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Transportation and Lists. Shellwood (talk) 01:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. A strange remnant indeed. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
• Delete: The title is misleading. This is essentially a list of North American railroads by number of steam locomotives in 1948, an impossibly niche criterion for a list. I would not oppose an article resembling Timeline of largest passenger ships, except of course it would be something like Timeline of largest North American railroads by mileage or something like that. But the title is vague and the article seems all but abandoned, since there were no edits at all between 2012 and 2020 (and no non-minor edits between 2007 and 2020). This vestige of early Wikipedia is pointless. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 01:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

• Delete Whatever the original intent, this seems a very short and incomplete list. There are numerous railroads/rail lines in the United States. Looks like the editor just went by info in the two books listed, but there are no details of which pages, etc. — Maile (talk) 23:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
• Delete: This list of steam locomotives seems like a niche curiosity, and it's not really the kind of in-depth information most readers would expect from an encyclopedia. Waqar💬 17:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
• Delete This is clearly not an encyclopedic subject, much the same as the former steam locomotive production article Mackensen mentions (I happened to be the nominator for that AfD). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:54, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
• Delete per NOTDB. Did consider a redirect yet the name is too confusing. gidonb (talk) 23:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.