Oldest railroads in North America (English Wikipedia)

Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 85 [1]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), pp. 415, 537 [2]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 459 [4]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 501 [5]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 415 [6]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 462 [7]
Railroads and Canals of the United States of America by Henry V. Poor (New York: John H. Schultz & Co, 1860), p. 460 [8]

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Development of Early Transportation Systems in the United States by J.L. Ringwalt (Philadelphia: Railway World Office, 1888), (RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION FROM 1830 TO 1840)[9]

Gamst, Frederick C.; The Transfer of Pioneering British Railroad Technology to North America, Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum; "First, in 1795 on Boston's Beacon Hill, a wooden railway of about a two-foot gauge in the form of a double-track inclined plane took earth removed from the top of the hill to its base. This excavation prepared a level area for the new State House of 1798, designed by the architect and construction engineer Charles Bulfinch."
in The Transfer of Pioneering British Railroad Technology to North America by Frederick C. Gamst, University of Massachusetts, Boston [3]

"Leiper Railway Historical Marker". www.explorepahistory.com. WITF, Inc. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
ExplorePAHistory.com Historical Marker Allegheny Portage Railroad
ExplorePAHistory.com Historical Marker Service began on wooden rails.

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Heydinger, Earl J. (1964). "Railroads of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company: GROUP IX". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. 110 (110). Railway and Locomotive Historical Society: 59–62. JSTOR 43518101. THE MAUCH CHUNK RAILROAD: Pennsylvania's first railroad and first anthracite carrier opened on Saturday, May 5th, 1827, when seven cars of coal passed from the Summit Hill mines of the L. C. & N. Company to their canal at Mauch Chunk, descending 936 feet in the nine-mile trip. Sixteen-year-old Solomon White Roberts, later a noted railroad engineer, who had helped his uncle, Josiah White, build the railroad, rode the first delivery of coal by rail. Loaded cars made the trip in a half-hour; mules returned three or four empties over the same route in three to four hours. Evidently the line had only seven (or twenty-one) coal cars at the opening, as that number brought coal to the canal on the following Monday and Tuesday also. These three days' deliveries, twenty-one cars, deposited nearly a thousand tons of anthracite into a chute over the canal boat landing. Loaded cars descending drew empties from the bottom of this chute on a self-acting plane. Built in a period of four months, on a turnpike previously used for coal wagons, the line, 12-1/2, miles with sidings, cost $38,726. Ties were on four-foot centers; strap rail was ⅜" x 1½".
Ward, Stanley M. (1892). "The First Locomotive". Science. 19 (470): 80–81. JSTOR 1767307. Retrieved 2024-12-30.

Bartholomew, Ann M.; Metz, Lance E.; Kneis, Michael (1989). Deleware and Lehigh Canals (1st ed.). Oak Printing Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Center for Canal History and Technology, Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museum, Inc., Easton, Pennsylvania. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0930973097. LCCN 89-25150.

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