Stourbridge Lion to the Stourbridge Line - Softcover

Keates, Beth Anne; Springirth, Kenneth C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634995368 ISBN 13: 9781634995368

Publisher: America Through Time, 2025

Synopsis

Traces the history of the Stourbridge Lion, America's first steam locomotive, and the railroads shaping northeastern Pennsylvania's Stourbridge Line.

Stourbridge Lion to the Stourbridge Line begins with the Stourbridge Lion, the first run of a steam locomotive in the United States on August 8, 1829, making a round trip between Honesdale and Seely's Mills, Pennsylvania. The Delaware & Hudson Railroad (which replaced the gravity railroad in 1899), Erie Lackawanna Railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), along with the smaller railroads (Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad, New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad, and Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad) are included in this book along with The Stourbridge Line which covers a nine-mile line between Honesdale and Hawley, Pennsylvania, of the former Erie Railroad, which once had direct railroad passenger service from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to New York City.

About this title

About the Authors

Beth Anne Keates, a dedicated historian, with the encouragement of her family, has had a lifelong interest in rail transportation and annually marches as Betsy Ross, leading the parade as the Regent of the Lansdowne Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

Kenneth C. Springirth, 1962 graduate of Drexel Institute of Technology and author of numerous books on streetcar and railroad lines, has a long interest in rail history as his father was a streetcar motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a streetcar motorman in Washington, D.C.

Edition details

• Publisher: America Through Time
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1634995368
• ISBN 13: 9781634995368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128