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Old Cutout Star Hudson Coal Co Police Badge MiningOld cut-out star ni circle obsolete police badge from the hudson coal co. The hudson coal company was owned and operated by the delaware & hudson railway. This company has a long history, starting with the delaware and hudson canal. The delaware & hudson canal was 108 miles long, between honesdale, pa, and eddyville, n. Y. (now in kingston), linking the delaware and hudson rivers built 1825-28 to move coal from the pennsylvania coalifelds to new york markets. A gravity railroad, completed across the moosic mts. In 1829, connected the coalfields at carbondale, pa, with honesdale. Four suspension bridge aqueducts were later constructed along the canal, including one over the delaware that still survives. The canal operated profitably until the 1860s increasing railroad competition caused its abandonment in 1898. The canal company built a railroad, one of the first railroads in the united states, later known as the delaware and hudson company and then the delaware and hudson railroad until 1968.
Neat piece for the railroad, oboslete badge, coal or mining collector. See my other auctions for more mining related badges.
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