A gravity railroad (American English) or gravity railway (British English) is a railroad on a slope that allows cars carrying minerals or passengers to...

(LC&N). The town would be the lower terminus of a gravity railroad, the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad, which would bring coal to the head of the LC&N...

Between 1762 and 1764, at the close of the French and Indian War, a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British military...

The Pennsylvania Gravity Railroad was a gravity railroad established to ship anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. It was established in 1850 and covered 47...

1820s-built Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad ('D&H Gravity Railroad') was a historic gravity railroad incorporated and chartered in 1826 with...

rights to construct the gravity railroad and inclined planes of the Pennsylvania subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad, which they applied for...

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while traditional traffic, such as coal, fell. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army...

Delaware and Hudson Canal Gravity Railroad Shops was a historic gravity railroad maintenance facility located at Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania...

For scenic gravity railroads, an early terminology, see roller coasters A scenic railroad or scenic railway is a train service operating leisure tours...

with the addition of a switchback gravity railroad. This narrow-gauge railroad, modeled after the gravity railroads used by coal mines, carried visitors...

for the gravity railway trip down to Mauch Chunk, thence to the Lehigh Canal (and in 1855, by rail transport) and their customers. The railroad became...

built a gravity railroad in the 1850s through the city for the purpose of transporting coal. The gravity railroad was replaced by a steam railroad built...

corporation, the Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad, to bring coal to the Delaware and the new canal. This cable railroad would grow in importance and become...

company in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, constructed the Mauch Chunk gravity railroad, a brakeman-controlled, 8.7-mile (14 km) downhill track used to deliver...

canal at Honesdale, the canal company built the Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania authorized its construction on April...

Hudson Gravity Railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale began operations on October 9, 1829. This was the first commercially successful railroad to operate...

the lead on an artificially built hill called a hump to use the force of gravity to propel the cars through the ladder. Freight trains that consist of unrelated...

The Room (or Rhume) Run Railroad was an early American gravity railroad with self-acting planes. It was built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company...

such as mountain scenery, historic areas, and foliage tours Scenic gravity railroad, early terminology for roller coasters Scenic railway (roller coaster...

Other railroads authorized by states in 1826 and constructed in the following years included the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's gravity railroad; and...

uniformly graded wagon road into a gravity railroad in just four months of construction. During the summer of 1827, a railroad was built from the mines at Summit...

century: a steam railroad was in place by 1884 to bring people to the first amusement ride at the city's oceanside, a "Gravity Railroad" roller coaster...

The Erie Railroad (reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in the Northeastern United States, originally connecting Pavonia Terminal in Jersey...

The Chesterfield Railroad was located in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was a 13-mile (21-kilometer) long mule-and-gravity powered line that connected...

as 1820. The Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad inclined plane existed at its mouth by 1829 and there were railroad lines along the stream by the 1880s...

the location of a former tower that had been built by the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad Company in 1889. The company operated a scenic railway tour along the...

Railway, a downhill gravity railroad used to deliver coal to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania – now known as Jim Thorpe. By the 1850s, the "Gravity Road" (as it became...

benches, and a "gravity railroad" (scenic railway). The only one of these planned additions which was not constructed was the gravity railroad. It wasn't until...

15 miles (24.1 km) northeast of Scranton, but high enough to run a gravity railroad to the Delaware River and feed New York City via the Delaware and Hudson...