Delaware and Hudson Canal Gravity Railroad Shops was a historic

gravity railroad A gravity railroad (American English) or gravity railway (British English) is a railroad on a slope that allows cars carrying minerals or passengers to coast down the slope by the force of gravity alone. The speed of the cars is controlled by a bra ...

maintenance facility located at Carbondale,

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Lackawanna County (; unm, Lèkaohane) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and had a population of 215,896 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city is Scranton. The county ...

. They were built as part of the

Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad A predecessor to the Class I Delaware and Hudson Railway, the 1820s-built Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad ''('D&H Gravity Railroad')'' was a historic gravity railroad incorporated and chartered in 1826 with land grant rights i ...

. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1978. It was delisted in 1987, after being demolished.

References

Transportation buildings and structures in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Former National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Carbondale, Pennsylvania Delaware and Hudson Railway {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub