New York built the first railroad???

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:09 am

Finderskeepers wrote:

Don't shoot me, copied from Wikipedia for what its worth!

Of COURSE Wikipedia is accurate! (citation needed)

NYC5475 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:25 pm **Posts:** 10

I always learned the first railroad (for which I will take as a locomotive-powered common carrier) was the Stockton & Darlington Railway. So my answer is not only was the first railroad not built in New York, but not even in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_% ... on_Railway

and before you criticize me for citing Wikipedia:
http://blogs.nature.com/nascent/2005/12 ... tan_1.html