Gravity Park was established by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad on the site of what had formerly been part of the roadbed of Plane No. 1. The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s Gravity Railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale opened on October 9, 1829, and the D&H used it to send many millions of tons of anthracite coal to markets in the New York and New England area during the nineteenth century. In 1899, the gravity railroad was converted into a conventional steam locomotive line, which operated until 1930.