A great shame, Chuck. The same could be said of our railway system.
The Beeching cuts of branch lines in the 1960s are surely regretted
today. The railways went everywhere and would take a great load off
the roads now if they were still usable.
Chris
On 21 Jul 2007, at 11:06, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Delightful. I can't help but think it's such a shame that most of the
> US canals were torn up long ago. It's only been two weeks since I
> discovered the prior existence of the Chenango Canal which ran 97
> miles
> from Binghamton, New York in the south to Utica, New York in the
> north. Although I had lived near Binghamton from 1965 to 1971 I had
> never heard of the Chenango Canal. The canal connected the Binghamton
> area and the Pennsylvania coal fields to the south with the Erie Canal
> which ran from Buffalo to New York City. But it was already out of
> business and abandoned by 1877.
> <http://www.chenangocanal.org/html/chenango_canal__review.html>
>
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