hints of Comeback for Nation’s First Superhighway

[lsanderson]

A MODERN MULE The tugboat Margot nosed a barge along the Erie Canal.
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Published: November 2, 2008

LITTLE FALLS, N.Y. — Most people do not believe that Tim Dufel can push 2,000 tons of steel all the way across New York State. Isn’t the old Erie Canal dried up, they ask him, its locks broken, its ditch filled in and forgotten?

Comments

[malibrarian.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this interesting article. I know that we have a lot of tourists and crew teams up here on our section, I didn't know that it was still used for shipping.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The canal's in great shape. I hope we can take Sarah for a canal cruise some time. When it's reliably warmer, I think. It runs a couple of miles from the house malibrarian and I live in, and I still get a little thrill when I see it.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- that "superhighway" is important to me because it was so formative. Some of my great-great grandparents migrated from Vermont & Upper New York State to the Northwest Territory/Michigan partly by way of that canal soon after it opened.