Wayne County Coal and Iron Railway Co. (Uncanceled) - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bon for Sale

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Wayne County Coal and Iron Railway Co. (Uncanceled) - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bon For Sale

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Wayne County Coal and Iron Railway Co. (Uncanceled) - $1,000 Bond - Railroad Bon:
$154.00

$1,000 7% Uncanceled Bond. Lithograph by Wetzler & Hay, NY. 13 of 20 coupons remain. Important and Rare!!! Paper tear at fold. 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 U.S. state of Pennsylvania 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 U.S. gravity railroad built initially to haul coal to canal boats, was the second railway chartered in the United States after the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road before even, the Baltimore and Ohio (e. 1827). As a long gravity railway, only the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad (e. 1827) pre-dated its beginning of operations. Description The 4ft3in (1,295mm) narrow gauge railroad carried coal from Carbondale North-northeast of Scranton over the Moosic Mountains to the D&H Canal in Honesdale. The gravity railroad was opened in 1829, then like most early railw Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.