The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company completed the Gravity Railroad between Carbondale and Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in 1829 as the second railroad constructed in the western hemisphere. Built in England for this line, the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive used on this continent, made its trial trip from Honesdale on August 8, 1829. The first shipment of coal over the railroad left the mines on October 9, 1829, and in 1830 the line opened for general freight. The first passenger train operated in 1859. In 1898 operation by gravity and inclined planes ended, and in 1899 the line was converted to standard gauge and operated over its entire length by steam locomotives as an integral part of the Delaware and Hudson Company lines. John Bolton was president in 1829, R. M. Olyphant in 1898, and L. F. Loree in 1913.