- (Brown, Robert R., Canada's Earliest Railway Lines, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin #78, October 1949).
- ( Montresor's Farmway ) was built by British military engineers at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston, New York .
- in Boston carried excavations down the hill to clear the land for the State House .
- developers begin to reduce the height of Mount Vernon, prior to building streets and homes. Silas Whitney constructs a Gravity Railroad to move excavated material down the hill to fill marshy areas to create new land from the Back Bay . (Whitehill, Walter Muir, Boston - A Topographical History, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959, p.62).
- September 1809 : An experimental railroad was built next to a Philadelphia tavern by a millwright named Somerville. The track, built for Thomas Leiper, has a grade of 1-1/2 inch to the yard (about 4 %) over its total length (60 yards) and proves satisfactory when tested with a loaded car (Dunbar, Seymour, A History of Travel in America, p. 876-7).
- connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opened in 1810 . It closed in 1829 and was replaced by the Leiper Canal , but a railroad once again replaced the canal in 1852 . This became the Crum Creek Branch of the Baltimore And Philadelphia Railroad (part of the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad ) in 1887 . This was the first railroad meant to be permanent, and the first to evolve into a Common Carrier .
- between a gunpowder mill and its powder storage bunker at Falling's Creek, Virginia (Dunbar, p.878-9, quoting Thomas McKibben of Baltimore in the American Engineer, 1886).
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- Creek, Pennsylvania (Dunbar, p.880).
- reportedly has a wooden railroad in operation (Dunbar, p.880).
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- was incorporated March 4 , 1826 by Gridley Bryant . Construction began on April 1 , 1826 , and operations began on October 7 , 1826 . It later became a branch of the Old Colony Railroad (which became part of the New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad ). This is often called the first railroad in the U.S., and may have been the first to evolve into a Common Carrier without an intervening closure. It also may have been the first to be ''chartered''.
- 's Gravity Railroad in northeast Pennsylvania opened, with the '' Stourbridge Lion '', the first Locomotive to run on rails in the United States, first running on August 8 . The canal company, chartered in 1823 , called itself "America's oldest continually operated transportation company".
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- , now part of Norfolk Southern .
- opens in Delaware and Maryland , originally using horse power.
- began operations by September 1831 in Chesterfield County, Virginia .
- between Albany and Schenectady, New York was chartered in 1826 . Construction began August 1830 and the railroad opened September 24 , 1831 . It later became part of the New York Central Railroad .
- was incorporated April 25 , 1831 , and the first section opened November 26 , 1832 . This was probably the first Street Railway in the U.S.
- opens.
- was the first Steam Railroad in Florida , opening on September 5 .
- opens in Quebec , Canada .
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