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DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900

DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900
DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900

DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900

"The Bridge Line to New England and Canada". This is a Vintage piece of Railroad History made by DRESSEL for the DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD. This frame is marked DRESSEL MANUFACTURING CORP.

PATENTED March 6, 1900, last date AUG. The brass burner is marked DRESSEL PAT.

APP'D FOR , the font is marked DRESSEL 1139 and are in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe is scripted embossed "THE D&H" PAT'D DEC. One V-shape crack, and some small flea chips around rims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the technology distributor, see. Adding citations to reliable sources.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Delaware and Hudson Railway". Learn how and when to remove this template message. (as D&H) Present for CP ownership.

1,581 miles (2,544 kilometers). DH is a railroad that operates in the northeastern. CP operates D&H under its subsidiary. D&H's name originates from the 1823 New York state corporation charter listing The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. " authorizing an establishment of "water communication between the.

Nicknamed "The Bridge Line to New England and Canada, " D&H connected New York with. D&H has also been known as North America's oldest continually operated transportation company. Completed acquisition of the D&H South Line from CP. The D&H South Line is 282 miles long and connects. The D&H South Line consists of two rail lines, the.

Is located on the Sunbury Line, which was a former mainline of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. Delaware and Hudson Company (Railroad Corporation). By the 1790s, industrializing eastern population centers were having increasing troubles getting.

To fuel their growing kilns, smithies, and foundries. As local timber was denuded, efforts to find an alternative energy source began.

During a fuel shortage in Philadelphia during the. An employee by the direction of industrialist.

Conducted a series of experiments and discovered a number of ways that'rock coal' or. Could be successfully ignited and burned. The fuel theretofore, had been seen more as a way to put out a fire, than a fuel to build one up, so its use also had to overcome a lot of prejudice. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. And inspiring the exploitation of the anthracite deposits found by. Which lead to the development of. When the Lehigh was much damaged by flooding. The news of its rapid repair and restoration together with the fact anthracite stocks had for a time run down, but not out establishing the reliable sourcing.

As did the beginning of mine output reaching the Delaware basin markets due to the long delayed completion of the. Wurts was a large thinker, and inspired his brothers to back forming a company to deliver the new. Fuel, anthracite to New York City by building an ambitious canal to connect the Hudson River and the Delaware River, and both to the coaldale coal deposits by chartering a Pennsylvania subsidiary corporation.

Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad. To bring coal to the Delaware and the new canal. Would grow in importance and become the far flung class I railroad, the Delaware and Hudson Railway. 1886 map of the Delaware and Hudson Company's Railheads and Connections. Merchant William Wurts, who enjoyed walking about along Amerindian paths, and what we today term, taking nature hikeshad heard of possible anthracite in the area.

So took a trip to explore the sparsely settled regions of. Finding coal outcrops, he immediately realized the value of the extensive anthracite deposits. Returning to Philadelphia, he successfully interested his brothers in backing the idea of building a. To make it easier to transport coal to New York City, which was still feeling the effects of the depletion of stands of woodlands providing heating & cooking fire wood and also squeezed by continuing post- War of 1812.

Which it had once been relying on. The canal he proposed the first sections of the. Opened in 1821 creating news coverage would also tie the developing industries along the Delaware to the Hudson, which helped raise financing. At the time, nearly all the eastern cities were experiencing energy cost increases and difficulty in getting large quantities of fuel as most nearby timber stands had been used up; often for charcoal production enabling.

To start up, which now needed fuel to stay in business. This general condition around most long establish cities and towns in the United States is one reason so much venture capital was raised for coal and coal transportation projects after 1823 and into the early 1840s, once.

Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Corporation charter listing the unusual name of The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. The D&H was chartered by separate laws in the states of New York and. In 1823 and 1826, respectively, allowing William Wurts and his brother Maurice to construct the.

And the gravity railroad which served it. In January 1825, following a demonstration of anthracite heating in a Wall Street coffeehouse, the D&H's public stock offering raised a million dollars. At the time, the Lehigh Canal had established a reliable flow of increasing annual tonnages.

And the industrial and heating uses of'rock coal' were well established. Ground was broken on July 13, 1825, and the canal was opened to navigation in October 1828. At the location known as Creeklocks, between. Where the creek fed into the. From there it proceeded southwest alongside Rondout Creek to.

Continuing through the valley of. From there the canal ran northwest on the New York side of the Delaware River, crossing into Pennsylvania on. And running on the north bank of the. From the Wurts' mine in the. To the canal at Honesdale, the canal company built the.

The state of Pennsylvania authorized its construction on April 8, 1826. On August 8, 1829, the D&H's first.

Made history as the first locomotive to run on rails in the United States. Westward extensions of the railroad opened access to new mines at.

Passenger service began west of Carbondale in 1860. The canal was a successful enterprise for many of its early years, but the company's management realized that railroads were the future of transportation, and began investing in stock and trackage. The next year the company dropped the "Canal" from its name. The remaining fragments of the canal were designated a. As railroads grew in popularity, the canal company recognized the importance of replacing the canal with a railroad.

The first step of this was the. North towards New York, chartered in 1864, built by the. In 1869 and opened in 1872. This was a branch of the Erie, running south from the. Also built as part of this line was a continuation from the other side of the D&H's gravity railroad at.

Southeast to the Erie's. The Jefferson Railroad (and through it the Erie) obtained. Over the D&H between its two sections, and the D&H obtained trackage rights to Lanesboro. The other part of the main line was the. Which the D&H leased on February 24, 1870.

Chartered in 1867 and opened in 1872, was also absorbed. The Albany and Susquehanna provided a line from. While the Lackawanna and Susquehanna split from that line at. Running south to the Jefferson Railroad at Lanesboro.

Also leased in 1870 was the. Connecting the Albany and Susquehanna at. (reorganized as the Schenectady and Duanesburg Railroad in 1873). On March 1, 1871, the D&H leased the.

Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad Company. Which, along with its leased lines, provided a network stretching north from Albany and Schenectady to. As well as an eastern route to Rutland via. The D&H also obtained a 1/4 interest in the. On March 1, 1873, the D&H got the. New York and Canada Railroad. Chartered as a merger of the. Which had been owned by the. This provided an extension, completed in 1875, north from. A branch opened in 1876 to. Continued each of the two branches north to. In 1886, extending the main line southwest from.

On July 11, 1889, the D&H bought the. A long branch line heading north from.

Some company directors questioned the wisdom of acquiring extensive rail systems in northern. Existed for many years through the canal and river system, so most of the coal markets in the area were already accessible. These concerns were overruled by the majority, who believed there would be great benefit to having an-all rail route to. That was not nearly as vulnerable to winter weather as the canal.

It was also desirable to avoid situations in which the company would have to rely on other railroads to reach its markets. The effort was helped by a report that estimated necessary upgrades to the. D&H newspaper ad for travel along the line, c. The canal was last used on November 5, 1891, and the gravity railroad closed January 3, 1899. On April 28, 1899 the name was changed to the.

For the canal was used by the. New York, Ontario and Western Railway. Chartered in 1901 and opened in 1902.

In 1903, the D&H organized the. Chateaugay and Lake Placid Railway.

As a consolidation of the. Saranac and Lake Placid Railway. Which had been leased by the Chateaugay Railroad, this formed a long branch from. In 1906, the D&H bought the.

Quebec, Montreal and Southern Railway. A suburb of Montreal, northeast to.

Most of the way to. In 1906 to continue the line north from.

From which the D&H obtained. This line opened in 1907, forming part of the shortest route between. In 1912, the D&H and the. Creating an interchange between the two lines at. Thus avoiding going through downtown.

Opened in 1915, this line runs north 6.65 miles to the D&H mainline at. On April 1, 1930, the property of the Delaware and Hudson Company was transferred to the. Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation , incorporated December 1, 1928. In 1938, the D&H started to act as a. By 1961 the D&H had ended service between Albany and.

(via Fort Edwards) and between Albany and. In the southeast part of. The D&H had also ended service on its branch between Plattsburgh and Lyon Mountain during this period. By 1963 The D&H had discontinued passenger on the Wilkes-Barre-Binghamton-Albany main line, the last trains being the route numbers 208 for. And 205 for Binghamton to Albany.

The company's last remaining service, on the route from the D&H station in Albany to Montreal, the. And its night train counterpart, the. Would remain in operation through the 1960s until April 30, 1971, when Amtrak thereafter assumed most long distance passenger train service. The Montreal Limited , near Delson, Que.

In 1964, Norfolk & Western wanted the Wabash & Nickel Plate Roads. The ICC at the time informed them that in order to get those two roads, they would also have to take the. The D&H company was reorganized as the. Delaware and Hudson Railway , and both roads were placed into Dereco, a.

After New York and Pennsylvania were hit by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which destroyed almost all of the EL mainline west of Binghamton, NY, and following the bankruptcy of numerous northeastern U. Railroads in the 1970s, including D&H and E-L, N&W lost control of Dereco stock. After several merger plans fell through, EL petitioned for and was included in the formation of the federal government's nascent. While D&H was technically still owned by N&W, they were given financial support and told to "sink or swim" as an independent railroad again. The D&H was left out of Conrail in order to maintain a semblance of competition in the Northeast. While the success of this move has often been discredited, since the D&H was simply too small to compete with all of the markets served by Conrail, in fact the railroad doubled in size by being granted trackage rights over Conrail reaching Newark, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Washington, D. The remainder of the Penn Division from. Was abandoned after the Belden Hill tunnel was enlarged in 1986. And the Midwest in the west. In the north, and the Philadelphia/Washington, D. The price tag reflected the D&H's horrid financial shape and the poor condition of its physical plant.

Guilford's plans for expanded service did not come to fruition, and in 1988, after two intense labor strikes, Guilford declared the D&H. And currently serves a growing number of industries in the valley under the auspices of the designated operator. With the D&H in limbo, the federal government ordered the. New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway. 7306, a repainted D&H locomotive.

CPR assumed all operations of the D&H System and eventually phased out the use of the D&H name and logos on locomotives or rolling stock. Under CPR, the D&H trackage was upgraded and a lot of excess track was removed. And Canada into a separate operating company named. L&H was merged back into CPR.

As described above, it was originally constructed as a coal hauling route, and when that business declined it proved difficult to turn a profit. The D&H operates in some of the most rural areas of New York State, and very few industrial customers between Binghamton and Rouses Point remain. The railroad's current prognosis is arguably better than it has been in a long time.

Along with the NYC connection, haulage agreements with other railroads are greatly increasing traffic. CP has been steadily using their high power. Traction locomotives on their road trains on the D&H line, instead of their aging. This is an indication of the increasing importance of reliable service. There are also major signal and track projects underway to modernize the former D&H lines.

In 2010, Canadian Pacific still had three of the former D&H's (ex-Lehigh Valley) EMD GP38-2's, 7303, 7304, and 7312 in their famous Delaware & Hudson "Lightning Stripe" paint scheme and had designated the 7312, nicknamed the B. O'Brien after the longest running engineer on the D&H, as its heritage locomotive.

However, in July 2013, the 7312 was sent to National Railway Equipment in Silvis, Illinois for a complete rebuild and repaint. When 7312 emerged from the paint booth, it had been painted into Canadian Pacific's Candy Apple Red paint. 7303 & 7304 were scheduled for the same, but as of May 2019, that has not happened. As of 2012, various trackage and haulage rights have been assigned to. Over the D&H between Sunbury, PA and Mechanicville, NY, and a connection to. NS has incorporated the former bridge-line route into their "Patriot Corridor", and currently the majority of the traffic on the D&H is that of the NS. In 2017, CP finished installing an updated signaling system on the line.

In 2018, CP started doing extensive work on the line, possibly in preparation for increased traffic. In October 2014, Canadian Pacific's Delaware & Hudson put a portion of their lines south of CP's Mohawk Yard in Glenville, New York to Sunbury, Pennsylvania and the former Albany Main from Delanson, New York to Voorheesville, New York up for sale.

Voorheesville Track is operated under contract by SMS Rail Services. The majority of the current traffic on the offered routes already consisted of NS Intermodal Containers and Auto Rack trains bound for. Carbondale City Hall, a monument to progress created in a place which would barely be populated without the Delaware and Hudson companies' transportation services leading to.

Rapidly becoming one of the early mining centers supplying the fuel needed for the American. The Delaware and Hudson was one of (if not the) longest-operating Class I railroads in American history. While in independent operation the railroad was well managed.

In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, D&H President L. Loree ordered many of the railway's larger locomotives to be taken off the mainline and serviced with the sole reasoning being to keep men working so they didn't lose their jobs. Most of these engines were in excellent condition and didn't need repairs. Also, in 1939, the railroad experimented with welded rail before many other railroads. The branch of the D&H which ran between Lake George and Glens Falls, NY, was converted to the.

In several phases, starting in 1978 and finishing in 2000. Trains also operate over former D&H trackage.

National Register of Historic Places. Delaware and Hudson Passenger Station.

Was named in honor of the D&H, which runs through the town. The origin of the name Delson comes from a contraction of " Del aware and Hud son ". The Village of Delanson, New York, which the D&H's Susquehanna Division ran through was also named in honor of the D&H. The name was coined by D&H Supt. Hammond around 1890 from the railroad's name DELaware ANd hudSON.

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DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD Lantern DRESSEL MANUF COOP NEW YORK THE D&H Co. 1900