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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The canal was killed by a new fangled technology, trains. So many industries have had radical changes from a new technology. I heard that before the Erie canal a bushel of grain was 80 cents in NYC. After the canal and the barges the price was a nickle a bushel. It seems hard to believe that a train was cheaper than that.
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This view of the Mohawk is mostly Waterchestnut, they even have trouble keeping the boat launches open because of it
This one was from the Whipple Bridge a very early and popular truss bridge, yes quite low clearance, yes hyd disks and e-shifting, the only way to go these days
I've taken newer boats up both the new Erie and Champlain Canals, the bridges aren't that much higher, when there was still commercial traffic the tugs had hydraulically
articulated bridges so that they could duck under the bridges