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lsanderson) wrote2008-11-03 07:01 am
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hints of Comeback for Nation’s First Superhighway

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?