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| Locale | Pennsylvania |
| Dates of operation | 1829–1899 |
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| Track gauge | 4 ft 3 in (1,295 mm) |
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[a] 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[b][c] U.S. gravity railroad[d] built initially to haul coal to canal boats, was the second railway chartered in the United States after the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road[e] before even, the Baltimore and Ohio (e. 1827). As a long gravity railway,[f] only the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad (e. 1827) pre-dated its beginning of operations.
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