The Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad, New York. Matthew M. Osterberg

The Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Gravity Railroad, New York



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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Page: 128
ISBN: 9780738510873


From the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at Carbondale to the Hudson River in New York near Kingston, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company and the Gravity Railroad transformed long tracks of wilderness into thriving economic areas. Conceived as an inexpensive way to transport anthracite coal, the canal began hauling loads in 1828 to the Hudson River, where barges to New York City took over. A leader in the technologies of the time, the canal company used the first telegraph system in America, and when Delaware & Hudson engineer Horatio Allen ran the locomotive Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale, he became the first to run a commercial steam locomotive on tracks in the Western ...

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