The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-03 00:00:00

LIST OF RAILROADS IN THE

UNITED STATES.

[Extracted from a list furnished by a gentleman
of authority in America, and inserted in the last
number of the Railway Magazine. It is understood
ws be the most complete account of lines of railroad in
operation with locomotives, as well as of the many
hundreds planned and partly executed in that coun-
try. The extracts include only those in operation.]
MAlNE.—Bangor to Orono, 10 miles.
NEW HAMPSIIIRE.—Nashua to Lowell, 15
miles.

MASSACHUSETTS.—Boston to Lowell, 26
miles ; ditto to Worcester, 44 ; ditto to Quincy, 4 ;
Andover to Haverhill, 15 ; Boston to Providence,
41 ; Dedham branch of ditto, 3 ; Taunton ditto,
11; Andover and Wilmington, 8 ; Worcester to
Norwich, 58 ; Boston to Salem, 15—Total, 225
miles.

RHODE ISLAND.—Providence to Stonington,
47 miles.

CONNECTICUT.—Hartford to Newhaven, 35

miles.

NEW YORK.—Buffalo to Black Rock, 3 miles ;
Ithaca to Oswego, 29 ; Albany to Schenectady,
16 ; Troy to Ballston, 25 ; Rochester to Car-
thage, 3 ; Saratoga to Schenectady, 22 ; Utica
to the latter place, 77 ; Brooklyn to Jamaica, 12 ;
Buffalo to Niagara, 23 ; New York to Harlem, 7 ;
Lockport to Niagara, 21; Auburn to Syracuse,
26 ; Catskill to Canajoharie, 68 ; Hudson to Mas-
sachussets Line, 30 ; total-365 miles.
NEW JERSEY.—Camden to Amboy, 61 miles ;
Jersey to New Brunswick, 31 ; New Bunswick to
Trenton, 15 ; Trenton to Philadelphia, 26 ; Pat-
terson to Jersey city, 16 ; Burlington to Mount
Holly, 7 ; Morristown to Newark, 20 ; total-
-176 miles.

PENNSYLVANIA.-Philadelphia to Columbia,
81 miles ; Hollydaysburg to Johnstown, 36 ;.
MauchChurehtoCoal-mines,l3 ; Ditto to the mines
on Room Run, 5 ; Mount Carbon, 7 ; Mine Hill
and Schuylkill Haven, 20 ; Port Carbon to Tus-
carora, 36; Schuylkill Valley, 13 ; Port Carbon
to Mill Creek, 7 ; Pine Grove to Coal-mines, 4 ;

Port Clinton to Tamaqua, 23 ; Lackawaxen, 16 ;
Westchester to Columbia Railroad, 9 ; Philadelphia
and Norristown, 19 ; Pottsville, Sunbury and
Danville, 51 ; Philadelphia to Baltimore, 93 ; Car-
bondale, 16 ; Beaver Meadow, 26 ; Philadelphia
to Wilmington, 17 ; total-488 miles.
DELAWARE.—Newcastle to Frenchtown, 16 ;
Wilmington and Susquehanna, 33 ;total-49 mi!es
_ _

MARYLAND.—Baltimore to Ohio River, 84
miles, finished (the whole line being 360 miles).
Harper's Ferry to Winchester, 30.—(A railroad is
soon to be made along the great valley of Virginia
to the south-west, till it meet the New Orleans and
Nashville road, which will make a railroad commu-

ideation between Baltimore and New Orleans of
1,200 miles.) Baltimore to Washington, 40 ;
Baltimore to York (Philadelphia), 60 ; total-214

miles.

VlRGlNlA.—Richmond to Coal Pits, 12.; Rich-
mond to Manchester, 13 ; Petersburg to Blakely,
59 ; Norfolk to Weedon (North Carolina), 77 ;
Richmond to Potomac, 58 ; llicksford to Gaston
(N. C.), 18 ; Louisa Railroad to the junction of
the Richniond Railroad, 50; Petersburg to Bell-
field, Halifax, and Wilmington (N. C.), 220 ;
Richmond to Petersburg, 23 ; total-530 miles.
NORTH CAROLlNA.—Bellfield to Raleigh 80
miles ; Wilmington and Raleigh (170 miles), 17
finished ; P€tersburg and Roanoke, 29 ; Greens-
ville to Roanoke, 18; total-140 miles.
SouTH CAROLlNA.—Charleston to Hamburgh
on the Savannah River, opposite Augusta, in
Georgia, 136 miles.
GEORGlA.—Altamaha to Brunswick, 12 miles ;
Georgia Railroad begins at Augusta, and is to go
to Athens, (114 miles) Madison and Greensbo-
rough, 70 miles done, and locomotives upon it ;
total-82 miles.
ALABAMA.—Decatur on the Tennessee to Tus-
cumbia, avoiding the Muscle Shoals, 46 miles.

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LOUISIANA .—New Orleans to Lake Ponchar.

train, 5 miles ; Ditto to Carrollton, 12. (There is to
be a line from New Orleans to Nashville, 560 miles,
to form part of the great line from Maine to New
Orleans.) Total-17 miles.
KENTUCKY.—Lexington to Frankfort, 29 miles;
Frankfort to Louisville, 66 ; Railroad to Barren
River, 2 ; total-97 miles.
011io.—Sandusky to Munroeville, 16 miles.

MICHTGAN.-Toledo to Tecumseh, 50 miles

Munroe to New Buffalo, on Lake Michigan, 35
miles, in operation (the whole line 200 miles) ;
Erie and Kalamazoo, 20 ; total-105 miles.

FLORIDA.—St. John's to Lake Wymieo, 6
miles ; Tallehassee to St. Masks, 20 ; total-26

miles.

In the States of Vermont, Mississippi, Ten-
nessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and the
Wisconsin territory, numerous lines have been
planned and commenced, but none finished. In
Arkansas and the lowa Territory none. _

Mr. David Stevenson, in his " Sketch of the

Civil Engineering of North America," calcu-
lates that there are not fewer than thirty-three great
Railways in an unfinished state, whose aggregate
length when completed will amount to upwards of
2,700 miles.
The following is a summary of the total length
of the lines finished up to December, 1838 :

Miles.
10

Maine
New Hampshire l5
Massachussets 225
Rhode Island 47
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey 176
Pennsylvania
Delaware 49
Maryland 214
Virginia
North Carolina

South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama 46
Louisiana
Kentucky
Ohio ...
Michigan
Florida

97
16
105
6

Total..

. 2,803

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