User:NE2/early US railroad charters

For now I'm going only through 1845.

Maryland

 * 1826 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
 * 1836 Cecil County Railroad
 * 1837 Baltimore and Peach Bottom Railroad
 * 1839 Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad

New York

 * 1823 Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
 * 1841 New York and Erie Railroad

Pennsylvania
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zr0ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA465 1823 1826 1827 1833
 * 1811 Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania
 * 1822 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
 * ? Juniata Bridge Company's Railroad (inc. 1823)
 * 148 Pennsylvania Railroad (not the same one that was built)
 * 31 Lackawanna Railroad (Lackawanna and Susquehanna Railroad in title)
 * 60 Susquehanna and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company
 * 71 Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad
 * 78 Danville and Pottsville Railroad
 * 58 Mahanoy Navigation Company
 * 99 Oxford Railroad
 * 128 Philadelphia Railway Dock Company
 * 1828 Lycoming Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1828 Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company
 * 1828 Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad
 * 1828 Orwigsburg Railroad
 * 1828? Tioga Navigation Company (inc. 1826)
 * 1828 Tioga Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1829 Lick Run Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1829 Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1829 Mount Carbon Railroad
 * 1829 Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad
 * 1829 Philadelphia Marine Railway
 * 1829? Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company (inc. 1827 as Schuylkill Valley Navigation Company)
 * 1830 Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1830 Delaware and Susquehanna Railroad
 * 1830 Lykens Valley Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1830 Middleport and Pine Creek Railroad
 * 1830 Phillipsburg and Juniata Railroad
 * 1830 Tuscarora and Cold Run Tunnel and Railroad Company
 * 1830 Wallenpaupack Improvement Company
 * 1831 Bald Eagle and Nittany Valley Turnpike and Railroad Company
 * 1831 Cumberland Valley Railroad
 * 1831 Fishing Creek Railroad
 * 1831 Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad
 * 1831 Lorberry Creek Railroad
 * 1831 Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad
 * 1831 Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad
 * 1831 Southwark Railroad
 * 1831 Swatara and Good Spring Creek Railroad
 * 1831 Washington and Pittsburgh Railroad
 * 1831 West Chester Railroad
 * 1832 Adams County Railroad
 * 1832 Franklin Railroad
 * 1832 Liggett's Gap Railroad
 * 1832 Marietta Railroad
 * 1832 Norristown, Berks and Lehigh Railroad
 * 1832 Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
 * 1832 Portsmouth and Lancaster Railroad
 * 1832 Strasburg Railroad
 * 1832 Williamsport and Elmira Railroad
 * 1832 York and Maryland Line Railroad
 * 74 Wyoming and Lehigh Railroad
 * 76 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
 * 85 Norristown and Mount Carbon Railroad
 * 166 Susquehanna Railroad
 * 172 West Chester Extended Railroad
 * 1834 Muddy Branch Railroad
 * 1835 Delaware County Branch Railroad
 * 1835 Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad
 * 1835 Norristown and Valley Railroad
 * 1835 West Chester and Port Deposit Railroad
 * 1835 West Philadelphia Railroad
 * 1835 Wrightsville and York Railroad
 * 1836 Beaver and Conneaut Railroad
 * 1836 Bristol and Newton Railroad
 * 1836 Catawissa and Towanda Railroad
 * 1836 Chambersburg and Loudon Railroad
 * 1836 Chester and Delaware County Railroad
 * 1836 Erie Railroad
 * 1836 Hestonville and Schuylkill Railroad
 * 1836 Huntingdon and Chambersburg Railroad
 * 1836 Kensington and Penn Township Railroad
 * 1836 Laurel Hill Coal Company
 * 1836 Lebanon Valley Railroad
 * 1836 Lewisburg, Penn's Valley and Hollidaysburg Railroad
 * 1836 New Castle Railroad
 * 1836 New Holland Railroad
 * 1836 New Hope, Doylestown and Norristown Railroad
 * 1836 Northampton and Luzerne Coal Company
 * 1836 Philadelphia and Port Deposit Railroad
 * 1836 Philadelphia and Taylorsville Railroad
 * 1836 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
 * 1836 Phoenixville and Chester Springs Railroad
 * 1836 Pine Grove and Schuylkill Haven Railroad
 * 1836 Plymouth Railroad
 * 1836 Quinn's Run Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1836 Reading and Brandywine Railroad
 * 1836 Towanda and Franklin Railroad
 * 1836 Warren and Pine Grove Railroad
 * 1836 Willardsburg and Jersey Shore Railroad
 * 1836 Wrightsville and Gettysburg Railroad
 * 1837 Chambersburg and Gettysburg Railroad
 * 1837 Columbia and Maryland Line Railroad
 * 1837 Harrisburg and Sunbury Railroad
 * 1837 Mifflinsburg and Catawissa Furnace Railroad
 * 1837 Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad
 * 1837 Pittsburgh, Kittanning and Warren Railroad
 * 1837 Pittsburgh and Laughlinstown Railroad
 * 1837 Pittsburgh and Susquehanna Railroad
 * 1837 Sunbury and Erie Railroad
 * 1837 Washington and Pittsburgh Railroad
 * 1837 Williamsport Railroad
 * 1837 Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad
 * 1838 Athens and Ithaca Railroad
 * 1838 George M. Lauman's Railroad
 * 1838 Hamburg, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton Railroad
 * 1838 North to Market Streets Railroad
 * 1838 Offerman Railroad and Mining Company
 * 1838 Stafford Coal Company
 * 1838 Tioga and Seely Creek Railroad
 * 1839 Alleghany and Bald Eagle Railroad, Coal and Iron Company
 * 1839 Dividing Ridge Railroad
 * 1839 Hanover and Codorus Railroad
 * 1839 Howelton Coal Company
 * 1839 Huntingdon and Hollidaysburg Railroad
 * 1839 Larry's Creek Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1839 Loyalsock Railroad
 * 1839 Philadelphia and New Hope Railroad
 * 1839 Shrewsbury Railroad
 * 1839 Towanda Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1839 Union Railroad and Mining Company
 * 1839 West Branch Franklin Railroad
 * 1839 Williams Valley Railroad and Mining Company
 * 1840 Bradford Railroad and Coal Company
 * 1840 Chester Borough Railroad Tracks
 * 1840 Danville Railroad
 * 1840 Pottsville and Tuscarora Railroad
 * 1841 Columbia, Marietta and Portsmouth Railroad
 * 1841 Fourth Mountain Coal and Railroad Company
 * 1841 Shickshinny Bridge and Railroad Company
 * 1841 Swatara Railroad
 * 1841 Wilkinsburg Railroad
 * 1842 Bear Mountain Railroad
 * 1842 Broad Mountain Coal Company
 * 1842 Erie and North East Railroad
 * 1842 Harrisburg and Pine Grove Railroad
 * 1842 Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad
 * 1842 North Branch Canal Company
 * 1844 Fishing Creek, Swatara and Schuylkill Railroad
 * 1844 Franklin Canal Company
 * 1844 Hollidaysburg and Bennington Railroad and Mining Company
 * 1844 Shamokin, Mahanoy and Schuylkill Railroad
 * 1845 Bedford Mineral Springs Railroad