Date: 1882
During the same year, a railroad nine miles in length was laid out from the Mauch Chunk Coal Mines of Penn sylvania, to the Lehigh River, and in 1828 a road was constructed, by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, from their coal mines to Honesdale, and a commissioner was sent to England to purchase rails and locomotives.  These locomotives arrived in the spring of 1829, and were the first used in the United  HISTORY OF FAY'ETTE COUNTY.