However, this rule is excepted by both the 1st and 2nd constructed & operational railroads, both of 3 miles s built for hauling quarried stone to docks at the tidewaters: the 1st chartered & 1st built Leiper Railroad (1810) near Philadelphia, and the Granite Railroad (c. 1826), near Boston, which city, had already had experience seeing two decades of railed roads &mdash; the use of temporary portable funicular tramways as it began the decades long process of filling in its Back Bay mudflats.