Private company
Room Run Railroad
The Room (or Rhume) Run Railroad was an early American gravity railroad with self-acting planes. It was built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to transport coal from the Room Run Mine in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania to landings at Mauch Chunk on the Lehigh River so it could be shipped on the Lehigh Canal to the Delaware River at Easton, Pennsylvania to markets in Philadelphia or New York City via the Delaware or Morris Canals.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards
.jpg){kind=link}
The Room (or Rhume) Run Railroad was an early American gravity railroad with self-acting planes. It was built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to transport coal from the Room Run Mine in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania to landings at Mauch Chunk on the Lehigh River so it could be shipped on the Lehigh Canal to the Delaware River at Easton, Pennsylvania to markets in Philadelphia or New York City via the Delaware or Morris Canals.2
Links
- WikipediaRoom Run Railroad
- WikidataQ104856391
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataRoom Run Railroad on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaRoom Run Railroad on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsRoom Run Railroad photo by Karl Bodmer, Public domain