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The Leiper Railroad was a 'family business–built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), constructed in 1810 after the quarry owner, Thomas Leiper, failed to obtain a charter with legal rights-of-way to instead build his desired canal along Crum Creek. The quarry man's 'make-do' railroad was the continent's first chartered railway, first operational non-temporary railway, first well-documented railroad, and first constructed railroad also meant to be permanent.

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rdfs:label	Leiper Railroad (en)
rdfs:comment	The Leiper Railroad was a 'family business–built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), constructed in 1810 after the quarry owner, Thomas Leiper, failed to obtain a charter with legal rights-of-way to instead build his desired canal along Crum Creek. The quarry man's 'make-do' railroad was the continent's first chartered railway, first operational non-temporary railway, first well-documented railroad, and first constructed railroad also meant to be permanent. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Camden and Amboy Railroad Quincy, Massachusetts Schuylkill Canal Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania Delaware County, Pennsylvania Delaware River Delaware Valley Delaware and Hudson Canal Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad Horse-drawn railways Hoboken, New Jersey John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) Pennsylvania Ridley Creek United States University of Pennsylvania Crum Creek Animal power Thomas Leiper Thomas Leiper Estate Lehigh Canal Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Main Line of Public Works Steam locomotive Stourbridge Lion Railway lines closed in 1828 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Companies based in Philadelphia Wallingford, Pennsylvania Allegheny Portage Railroad American canal age Erie Canal Family business Parryville, PA Beaver Meadows Railroad Leiper Canal River delta Defunct Pennsylvania railroads Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Railway lines opened in 1810 Granite Railroad Middlesex Canal National Register of Historic Places Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania Railroad Industrial revolution Oldest railroads in North America Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Delaware and Hudson Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad Rights-of-way Eastern Pennsylvania dbr:Wikt:tidewater dbr:Bull's_Head_Tavern_(Philadelphia) dbr:Illinois_Canal dbr:Potomack_Canal
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.ridleytownshiphistory.com/leiper_canal.htm https://archive.org/details/abriefreviewrai00wilsgoog/page/n24 https://books.google.com/books%3Fvid=LCCN13020148&id=2bxamqeAE9EC&pg=PA494&lpg=PA494&dq=railroad+%22Thomas+Leiper%22+date:1600-1923&num=100
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has abstract	The Leiper Railroad was a 'family business–built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), constructed in 1810 after the quarry owner, Thomas Leiper, failed to obtain a charter with legal rights-of-way to instead build his desired canal along Crum Creek. The quarry man's 'make-do' railroad was the continent's first chartered railway, first operational non-temporary railway, first well-documented railroad, and first constructed railroad also meant to be permanent. 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 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. by John Bach McMaster, page 494, A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War (en)
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