| | THE BRIDGE LINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Stourbridge Lion |
 | | "Stourbridge Lion" Painting by A. Sheldon Pennoyer originally hanging in the Delaware and Hudson office at 230 Park Avenue, NY, NY (Image reprinted with permission from Jim Shaughnessy's "The Delaware and Hudson") |
 | | The "STOURBRIDGE LION" was the first locomotive to run on a railway in America, and was operated between Honesdale and Seely's Mills in Pennsylvania on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's railroad, August 8, 1829. |
 | | On March 13, 1823, The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company obtained rights from the Legislature of Pennsylvania, authorizing them to construct a canal from the mouth of the Lackawaxen to the present site of Honesdale and also to construct a railroad from their coal beds at Cardondale to the head of this canal. |
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