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The D&H Gravity Railroad carried cars from Carbondale, through Waymart, to Honesdale where it delivered them to D&H canal boats. "The D & H Canal Company planned to transport their coal from the mines in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, to the Hudson River entirely by canal. However, the availability of water at the summit and the number of locks needed to scale the Moosic Mountains between Carbondale and Honesdale precluded this plan. A "gravity railroad" was the solution, and construction began in 1827. The "gravity," designed by D & H Chief Engineer John B. Jervis, utilized a series of inclined planes and steam engines to pull carloads of coal up and over the Moosic Mountains, a rise of almost 1,000 feet."⁽³⁾ "The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile, man-made waterway, an engineering feat of pre-industrial America that brought a new form of energy from the hills of Pennsylvania out to the Hudson River. From 1828 to 1898, mules pulled barges laden with anthracite coal along river valleys from Honesdale in northeastern Pennsylvania to Eddyville on the Rondout Creek"⁽²⁾
D&H Gravity RR, Plane #1, Carbondale	D&H Gravity RR, Plane #1, Carbondale	D&H Gravity RR, Carbondale from #1 L Hensel	D&H Gravity RR, Carbondale PA
DH Gravity Carbondale , from Plane 28 L. Hensel	D&H Gravity RR, Honesdale	D&H canal basin & Gravity station, Honesdale PA 1875	D&H Gravity station, Honesdale PA 1875
D&H Gravity High Works, Hawley PA	DH Gravity, excursion train starting up plane 13, Honesdale	D&H Gravity RR, Foot Plane #13, Honesdale	D&H Gravity RR, Foot Plane #23, Honesdale
D&H Gravity RR, Waymart Planes 12 & 18	D&H Gravity RR plane #3	DH Gravity Racket Brook Breaker , from Plane 4 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 4, Honesdale 1875
DH Gravity Plane 11 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 13, Honesdale L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 13, Boat Basin running up the Hill	DH Gravity Plane 13, Honesdale
DH Gravity Plane 14, Honesdale L. Hensel	DH Gravity down Plane 16 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 16 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 17, Keen's Lake L. Hensel
DH Gravity Plane 17 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 24 L. Hensel	DH Gravity Plane 26 L. Hensel	DH Gravity , Waymart Depot 1895 L. Hensel
DH Gravity from High Works , Waymart Depot 1875	DH Gravity , Keene Lake L. Hensel	DH Gravity , Keene Lake L. Hensel	DH Gravity , Keene Lake L. Hensel
DH Gravity , Shepard’s Crook L. Hensel	D&H Gravity Depot Farview plane	D&H Gravity, Olyphant	DH Gravity
DH canal eng 'John B. Vaughn' #2, 1935	D&H Gravity, Bolton Basin , Canal boats stranded after towpath break in 1878		D&H 0-6-0 'Lackawanna' , blt for DH Canal 1862
D&H Canal, Lackawaxen, last boat to pass	D&H Canal, Lackawaxen	D&H Canal, Honesdale PA	D&H lower canal basin, Honesdale PA 1875
D&H lower canal basin, Honesdale PA	D&H Canal Tow Path Across Lackawaxen, Honesdale PA	D&H Canal Tow Path Across Lackawaxen, Honesdale PA	D&H Canal, Ellenville, NY 1897
D&H Canal, Ellenville, NY 1897	DH canal, Ellenville NY 1906	DH canal, Youngs Lock Ellenville NY 1897	DH canal, Tom Teller Lock Ellenville, NY 1906
D&H Canal, Napanoch, NY	D&H Canal, Napanoch, NY	D&H Canal, Narrowsville PA 1906	D&H Gravity engine house at Plane F, between Olyphant & Carbondale 1890
DH canal, Pond Eddy NY	D&H Canal, Pond Eddy NY	D&H Canal, Rolands PA 1906	D&H Canal, Rolands PA
D&H Canal, Roundout NY	D&H Canal lock #71, 1880		D&H Canal , Seaside Supply Store at Wurtsboro1880
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