<Ul> <Li> August 8, 1829: The Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive imported into the US, is tested along tracks built by the Delaware and Hudson company . Deemed too heavy for the company's rails, it and its three breatherin are converted to stationary engines for cable railway parts of the transportation system . </Li> <Li> 1830 ushers in a flurry of railroad incorporations, charter applications, grants and beginnings of construction . The B&O opens its first 13 miles (21 km) stretch to Ellicott's Mills and begins regular scheduled passenger services on schedule, May 24, 1830 . </Li> <Li> 1830 the 26 miles (42 km) Beaver Meadows Railroad from Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania is incorporated and constructed to open a second major coal field to the Lehigh Canal at Parryville beyond the Lehigh Gap . This would form the seed company of the first class Lehigh Valley Railroad after the 1870s . </Li> </Ul> <Li> August 8, 1829: The Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive imported into the US, is tested along tracks built by the Delaware and Hudson company . Deemed too heavy for the company's rails, it and its three breatherin are converted to stationary engines for cable railway parts of the transportation system . </Li> <Li> 1830 ushers in a flurry of railroad incorporations, charter applications, grants and beginnings of construction . The B&O opens its first 13 miles (21 km) stretch to Ellicott's Mills and begins regular scheduled passenger services on schedule, May 24, 1830 . </Li> <Li> 1830 the 26 miles (42 km) Beaver Meadows Railroad from Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania is incorporated and constructed to open a second major coal field to the Lehigh Canal at Parryville beyond the Lehigh Gap . This would form the seed company of the first class Lehigh Valley Railroad after the 1870s . </Li>

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