This 1886 map shows the mainline of the D&H "Canal" Railway (Delaware & Hudson). This railway system was designed to move coal more rapidly to Philadelphia and through New York to Albany and to New York, City.

The D&H Railway and telegraph line was built by the Erie Railway in 1869 and was fully opened in 1872. The Erie Railway had full trackage rights over the whole system that they built for the D&H Railroad. The spur line where this E.R.W. was found appears to connect Honesdale, PA on the mainline D&H railway line in the South with Lanesboro, PA which is also on the D&H mainline in the North. Much of the anthracite coal is found in this area. At Honesdale, PA, the D&H gravity railroad went southeast to the Pennsylvania Coal Company railroad at Hawley, PA.

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