An Act to Incorporate the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company: Passed April 17, 1826 and an Act to Amend the Act to Incorporate the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company Passed April 17, 1826, Passed March 28, 1828

The Mohawk and Hudson was New York’s realization that railroads were superior to canals in moving goods across the continent.  The Mohawk and Hudson would parallel the Erie Canal between Albany and Schenectady and take an entire day off of the travel time between those two cities.  It would also be one of the early adopters of steam locomotives with the arrival of the DeWitt Clinton in 1831.