States early Industrial revolution energy needs directly and via the Delaware Canal businesses all along the forty miles to Philadelphia from Easton, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Canal System - ambitious collection of far flung canals, and eventually railroads authorized early in 1826. Schuylkill Canal - Navigation joining Reading, PA and Philadelphia. Notes Footnotes References Further reading L. Lowenthal, From the Coalfields to the Hudson: A History of the Delaware & Hudson Canal, Purple Mountain Press, 2009. T. Starr, Golden Age of Railroads in New York's Capital District, Timothy Starr, 2012. External links D&H Historical Society D&H Canal Historical Society Carbondale Historical Society and D&H Transportation Museum D&H 4-8-4s D&H 4-6-6-4s D&H Virtual Museum Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiaries Companies based in New York (state) Defunct Maryland railroads Defunct Vermont railroads Defunct Virginia railroads Defunct Washington, D.C., railroads Former Class I railroads in the United States Former regional railroads in the United States History of Orange County, New York History of Ulster County, New York New Jersey railroads New York (state) railroads Pan Am Railways Pennsylvania railroads Predecessors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Railway companies established in 1968 Transportation in Sullivan County, New York American companies established in 1899 Railway companies established in 1899 American companies established in 1968