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Eli Bowen
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Then a new inelined plane; and so on to th^ tenniniis on the oanaL The Honesdale road is eon- atnieted thiooghont with a donble track, one for the loaded oars, and one for the empty cars. The ascent of the inclined planes is made in some cases by means of water-power. Fonr cars of 3M tons each are drawn np the inclined planes at a time. The ayerage number of trips per day is about one hundred and twenty. The utmost expt/eitj of the Honesdale road for transporting ooal is giren at ftre hundred a...nd flity thousand tons per annum. The Railroad of the Pennsylrania Company, firom the neighborhood of Pittston to Hawley, (a port on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, deven miles beyond Honesdale,) Ib also a grayity road, forty-four miles in length, with ten inclined planes on the empty car track, and twelye on the loaded tzaok, each plane from seyenteen hundred to two thousand feet in length. Three of these planes are worked by water-power, the others by steam. Most of these planes are supplied with three stationaiy steam-engines of thirty horse power each.

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