Tour Historic Honesdale   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Part 2                                                   © 2003 John Van Horn 5. AMERICA’S FIRST LOCOMOTIVE With the hope of finding a better way for hauling coal from Carbondale to Honesdale other than by using the Gravity Railroad, the D & H Canal Company officers ordered steam locomotives from Stourbridge , England. One engine was called the Stourbridge Lion, so named because of the large lion’s head painted on the front of the boiler. Horatio Allen ran the locomotive from Honesdale to Seelyville and back, past this point, on August 8, 1829. Unfortunately, the engine proved too heavy for the tracks, was abandoned, and for some reason or other, was never used again. A life size working replica of the Stourbridge Lion is a part of the WCHS's museum exhibit on the history of the D & H Canal Company.
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