Transportation was essential to the success of the Dorflinger glassmaking enterprise at White Mills. On the banks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, White Mills received raw materials by canal boat and sent finished goods out of the area. Canal boats carrying anthracite coal left Honesdale on a 108-mile journey to Rondout, New York, then continued to the Hudson River and New York City, while returning boats brought high-quality sand, lead oxide, and potash back to White Mills to be made into glass. The opening of the Jefferson Branch of the Erie Railway from Lackawaxen to Honesdale in 1868 provided another way to move products to market, and Christian Dorflinger was one of several local investors in the railway. The former rail line is still used today for special passenger excursions and to transport goods for several local industries. Transportation also benefited other businesses, including the Honesdale Glass Works in Traceyville, on the Delaware and Hudson Canal two miles west of White Mills. Honesdale Glass Works operated from 1846 to 1902 and was a subsidiary of the Dorflinger Glass Works from 1873 to 1881. The canal made loading glass easy and opened access to the large New York City market, though it was inoperable in winter, from about November to March, when it was drained to prevent freezing damage. During those months, rafts carried glass and other products to the Delaware River and then downstream to Philadelphia. As John C. Dorflinger recalled, Dorflinger glass reached every state in the Union and foreign markets by canal, gravity railroad, steam railroad, and horse and wagon. The original locks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company measured 76 feet by 9 feet, but in 1850 they were enlarged to 100 feet by 15 feet, increasing the capacity of a single boat from 10 tons in 1828 to 40 tons in 1850. Rail service began to White Mills in 1848, and the original Erie Railroad Depot, believed to have been built that year, burned in 1888 and was rebuilt in 1889, with a later addition visible in a photograph taken around 1920.