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- Leiper_Railroad abstract "The Leiper Railroad was a horse drawn railroad that operated between 1810 and 1828 in what is now Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was replaced by the Leiper Canal, remnants of which are still visible. It was the first documented railroad in America.The credit of constructing the first permanent tramway in America may therefore be rightly given to Thomas Leiper. He was the owner of a fine quarry not far from Philadelphia, and was much concerned to find an easy mode of carrying stone to tide-water. That a railway would accomplish this end he seem to have had no doubt. To test the matter, and at the same time afford a public exhibition of the merits of tramways, he built a temporary track in the yard of the Bull's Head Tavern in Philadelphia. The tramway was some sixty feet long, had a grade of one inch and a half to the yard, and up it, to the amazement of the spectators, one horse used to draw a four-wheeled wagon loaded with a weight of ten thousand pounds. This was the summer of 1809. Before autumn laborers were at work building a railway from the quarry to the nearest landing, a distance of three quarters of a mile. In the spring of 1810 the road began to be used and continued in using during eighteen years.From page 494 of A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War by John Bach McMaster. It is now in the public domain and available from Google Books.".
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- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageExternalLink leiper_canal.htm.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageExternalLink books?vid=LCCN13020148&id=2bxamqeAE9EC&pg=PA494&lpg=PA494&dq=railroad+%22Thomas+Leiper%22+date:1600-1923&num=100.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageID "7427387".
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageLength "2379".
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageOutDegree "11".
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageRevisionID "597809098".
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Horse-drawn_railways.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_lines_closed_in_1828.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_lines_opened_in_1810.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Leiper_Canal.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Nether_Providence_Township,_Delaware_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Oldest_railroads_in_North_America.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Rail_transport.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_Leiper.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Leiper Railroad".
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Pennsylvania-transport-stub.
- Leiper_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-rail-transport-stub.
- Leiper_Railroad subject Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Leiper_Railroad subject Category:Horse-drawn_railways.
- Leiper_Railroad subject Category:Railway_lines_closed_in_1828.
- Leiper_Railroad subject Category:Railway_lines_opened_in_1810.
- Leiper_Railroad hypernym Horse.
- Leiper_Railroad type Company.
- Leiper_Railroad type Person.
- Leiper_Railroad type Company.
- Leiper_Railroad type Establishment.
- Leiper_Railroad type Line.
- Leiper_Railroad type Railroad.
- Leiper_Railroad type Vehicle.
- Leiper_Railroad comment "The Leiper Railroad was a horse drawn railroad that operated between 1810 and 1828 in what is now Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was replaced by the Leiper Canal, remnants of which are still visible. It was the first documented railroad in America.The credit of constructing the first permanent tramway in America may therefore be rightly given to Thomas Leiper.".
- Leiper_Railroad label "Leiper Railroad".
- Leiper_Railroad sameAs Q6520121.
- Leiper_Railroad sameAs m.0261907.
- Leiper_Railroad sameAs Q6520121.
- Leiper_Railroad wasDerivedFrom Leiper_Railroad?oldid=597809098.
- Leiper_Railroad isPrimaryTopicOf Leiper_Railroad.