The Delaware and Hudson Railway (reporting mark DH) is a railroad that operates in the northeastern United States. Since 1991 it has been a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, although CPR has assumed all operations and the D&H does not maintain any locomotives or rolling stock. However, Canadian Pacific has kept three of the D&H's former EMD GP38-2's, 7303, 7304, and 7312 in their famous Delaware & Hudson "Lightning Stripe" paint scheme and has designated the 7312 as it's heritage unit.
It was formerly an important bridge line, connecting New York with Montreal, Quebec and New England. The company started out as the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, which built a canal running from Kingston, New York on the Hudson River southwest to Port Jervis, New York on the Delaware River and beyond to the anthracite coal fields at Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The Canal Company later built a Gravity railroad, one of the first railroads in the United States. At the end of the 1800s the organization became known as the Delaware and Hudson Company as the canal had ceased operations and the Gravity railroad had closed. The focus of the business was running trains and was subsequently renamed again to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and remained as such until 1968.
The D&H has called itself "North America's oldest continually operated transportation company." At the end of 1970 it operated 751 miles of road on 1310 miles of track, not including the Greenwich and Johnsonville; that year it reported 3210 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 13 million passenger-miles.
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