File:First Railroad Marker.jpg
Near Here
Mohawk and Hudson
First Railroad
Chartered in this country,
1826, began its run Albany
to Schenectady
State Education
Department 1940
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The sign is not incorrect. If you read the Don Rittner literature, you learn the Albany Schenectady RR was indeed the first RR in the country to run a locomotive train on its rails. All earlier railroads ran horse-drawn trollies or were gravity trains. The first railroads were in ancient Rome 2000 years ago, but this addresses railroads that ran actual locomotive trains, not horse-drawn or gravity trains.