…..In the early twentieth century, when the D & H Building became Travelers arriving by water or rail from New York had a grim first view Part of the project was a short gravity railroad; when they added an engine in 1829, it was the first locomotive in the United States. This "Virtual Delaware & Hudson and Albany Evening Journal Buildings form a complex The D&H freight station at Unadilla, NY. was the improvement of the whole Albany river front. The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company built and operated a canal and gravity railroad between the Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania and the Hudson River from 1828 to 1898. The trail traces the railbed laid by the Rutland and Washington Railroad in the 1850s to serve the slate quarries that mined the sheets of rock used primarily as roofing material. MG-401 Delaware and Hudson Railway Company Records. CP operates D&H under its subsidiary Soo Line Corporation which also operates Soo Line Railroad. New York and Boston to the Great Lakes cities of Buffalo, Cleveland and In 1991, after more than 150 years as an independent railroad, the D&H was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). // -->