Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad
American gravity railroad incorporated and chartered in 1826 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A predecessor to the Class I Delaware and Hudson Railway, the 1820s-built Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad ('D&H Gravity Railroad') was a historic gravity railroad incorporated and chartered in 1826 with land grant rights in the US state of Pennsylvania[lower-alpha 1] as a humble subsidiary of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and it proved to contain the first trackage of the later organized Delaware and Hudson Railroad (so eventually became a first class Class I Railroad). It began as the second long[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] U.S. gravity railroad[lower-alpha 4] built initially to haul coal to canal boats, was the second railway chartered in the United States after the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road[lower-alpha 5] before even, the Baltimore and Ohio (e. 1827). As a long gravity railway,[lower-alpha 6] only the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad (e. 1827) pre-dated its beginning of operations.
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Locale | Pennsylvania |
Dates of operation | 1829ā1899 |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 3 in (1,295 mm) |