Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (New York)

[@shawnrhyme5831]

Shawn Rhymes here. I'm enjoying this video very much. If you haven't heard of the Great Loop, you might want to check it out. The Erie canal is part of the Great Loop, and I'm hoping to do the Great Loop, but I'd be going west from Albany to Lake Erie. Thanks for the video.👍

[@megatheriumclub]

Cool, thanks!

[@VineyardGaden]

Great research and presentation. Thanks for the time and energy in producing it. Extremely educational. A magnificent piece of history.

[@NationalParkDiaries]

Really nice history and overview. Thanks for putting it together!

[@williamcraven1777]

Ive watched every youtube about the erie canal....this is the very best.

[@megatheriumclub]

That's very kind of you to say, I'm glad so many people are enjoying the video!

[@fjg9657]

Very informative and enjoyable. Nicely done!

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@carvalhoribeiro]

Great journey. Congratulations and thanks for sharing this.

[@NormKnorr]

Lived in Rochester in mid 60's & experienced the beauty & industry connected the Erie Canal. Thanks for the memories.

[@bultacowally]

Then YOU for one should know it is NOT the Erie Canal it is the Barge Canal...Didn't learn much in 60+ years did ya....

[@kaylemoine1571]

This is grand. Takes us to our history. Americans have been innovative from the beginning. We are a great country.

[@areguapiri]

Yes. The native-Americans.

[@surfrat8884]

@areguapiri Please just go away

[@areguapiri]

@@surfrat8884 ...The historic truth makes your backside "bleed".

[@surfrat8884]

@@areguapiri get some real help seriously

[@jontalbot1]

Maybe so but it was built at a time when most of the British canal system was already complete. The first modern canal (Bridgewater) was finished by 1761. The proposers of the Erie Canal would have been aware of it. There are relatively few canals in the US as building started as the railways were taking off. The US is a great and innovative country but did not pioneer everything by any means

[@douglaswood3083]

Excellent presentation! Thank you.

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kenhunt5153]

Well done. A National treasure.

[@johnhathaway7319]

Best Canal video ever. You did miss an old Aqueduct just East of Syracuse in Camillus, and next to Onondaga lake. I used to live a block away from it in Canastota, and went snowmobiling on the towpath a lot. I live in San Diego now, I took my GF back to see it last year, she had no idea how cool it is to see a working lock !

[@ANNEMARIADONALDSON]

Hi. Sitting in my garden in Ireland on one of our few warm days, I watched your erie canal journey with pleasure. I feel so attached to it and its history since I researched it for my ebook And They Never Looked Back. The story of an Irish family who used that route to the Midwest payback when. Thank you for that pleasant cruise through history. Anne

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for watching!

[@nealrantoul9831]

Thank you so much for a wonderful tour of the canal.

[@benarnold2663]

I plan to go by boat this summer, very informative. Great video

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robk1310]

Make sure to spend the day and night in the Village of Baldwinsville. You will love it. Lock 24.

[@barkeaterden]

Thanks for the video! I was born and raised in Cohoes and explored the old Erie canal and power canal ruins there. Biking up the Waterford chain of locks and the different types of maintenance facilities and parks along the way was a great local treat too.

[@edwarddorsheimer2055]

I grew up in Western New York = Alden. The western (Buffalo) end of the Erie Canal is a hop, skip, and jump from were I lived. It is all historical as this fine presentation shows. The people who put the video together did a superb job on gathering information, organizing it and finally assembling it into this absolutely amazing piece. Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

[@megatheriumclub]

That’s very kind of you to say. I’m thrilled you enjoyed it

[@gravityalwayswins1434]

Thanks for this top tier Erie Canal vid. Videography and >especially< narration are A grade. Straight up Informative. No BS juvenile political/religious drama. Thanks!

[@megatheriumclub]

Thrilled you enjoyed it

[@3sons66]

OS-WEEE-GO. I live 25 min from Seneca Falls and have never seen main street so bare!

[@megatheriumclub]

I did my best with pronunciations, so sorry to disappoint. Hopefully all of the comments with the correct pronunciations will fill in the viewers.

[@MrOliverwoods]

And no cars so it.s 5am

[@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv]

​@@megatheriumclubI don't think he was disappointed

[@dougdillenbeck-jz1gd]

It's ok you must not watch the today show because Oswego is Al Rokers home they talk often of it​@@megatheriumclub

[@djseiner]

Thank you. I lived in Syracuse for a while. This brought back some fond memories.

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@greatsilentwatcher]

I grew up a mile away from Bushnell's Basin and attended school in Pittsford. The canal has always been a part of everyday life.

[@greatsilentwatcher]

Medina is pronounced "Med (eye) na" and Oswego is äsˈwēɡō... just saying as an Upstate resident.

[@marksanders2587]

😮thank you soooo much for that I really appreciate that you spent your efforts on this Your technical skills are impressive:-)

[@edwardearl1]

Excellent, wonderful production! Thanks!

[@markc6207]

A great video thank you very much! We will be taking this trip to experience it in real time. Thank you.

[@MichaelM-q2q]

I travled the walkways and sat marveling at the drydock and locks of the old 8 foot wide canal near Albany . Some has become basements and walls near a parking lot. But, theres lots of great fossil hunts to be had all the big rack is made of fern and shells everywhare. There's something for everyone to enjoy. What a great job you've done with this video. It should be a school video . It's great thank you 👍

[@karaDee2363]

Thank you for a very well narrated documentary

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for listening

[@jamesellsworth9673]

You have done a fine job of explaining the canal along which I grew up.

[@megatheriumclub]

Much appreciated

[@davidkalbacker6033]

Excellent video. We are heading North this Fall on vacation and I will endeavor to stop at some of these sites, now that you have introduced me to them . Many thanks.

[@aureaphilos]

This was a wonderful production. I wish the Erie Canal network had more infrastructure, as that would allow for more recreational use by boaters and tourists alike; I've been watching Cruising The Cut channel, and the English canal network supports so much activity. I have family in the Syracuse and Auburn areas, so I've visited many of the sites you mentioned between those cities and Vermont, where I spent most of my life. I was surprised you skipped the Chittenango Junction site, which has a replica canal boat, a preserved general store, and a rediscovered and excavated dry dock. I'm glad you included the Ticonderoga at Skenesborough (SKEENS-boro), although it's sad to see that it's not better preserved.

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for the kind words

[@slwtgf]

Awesome! Our plan was to fly into Syracuse for the solar eclipse, but it was hard to get away, make that long weekend happen, and airfare got postponed until this coming weekend! Thanks to your journey here, I know exactly what and where to explore. You’re appreciated more than you know!

[@megatheriumclub]

Thrilled you enjoyed the video!

[@geoffreybuck8521]

Really enjoyed your video and commentary. Lived in Syracuse in the 70s while attending Syracuse University. Never visited the canal which I now regret. The canal is one of the greatest engineering marvels in world history. All done without electricity gasoline powered equipment. Fine with pick axes shovels and wagons pulled by horses and mules. Also the need to cut through dense forest first and removing stumps and roots before digging. All done in 8 years. This means to complete the 369+ miles 1 mile needed to be completed every 8 days. This is interesting and means our historical timeline in up for questioning. Thanks

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for the detailed comment!

[@bryanmonaghan6841]

And when it was finished weren't railroads starting to make their appearance?

[@HottKarl777]

I question how they actually did this too

[@rickmoro705]

Great video well done and narrated . I lived on a boat in the summer of 87, just west of lock 23 past through it many a times over the years great memories. Wish I was back in NY. Thank you for your contribution to a great state in such a eloquent manner... 👌👍

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for sharing!

[@MsVanorak]

thank you, very interesting. (from UK)

[@Paul-lm5gv]

3:42 Canalside in Buffalo is the location of the OLD terminus of the canal, which was moved north to suburban Tonawanda decades ago, where it joins the Niagara River. Canalside is there just for show. The old canal bed actually had to be excavated after buildings and other development buried it a century ago. Canalside is not an actual working canal but it is a nice venue for all kinds of downtown events. Kudos for showing the old warships! They have an impressive history all their own.

[@ted9876]

Really well done presentation. Thanks. Grew up in Syracuse, nice to see some pictures from the time when the canal traveled through the city. Growing up it was easy to see the signs of the canal downtown.

[@megatheriumclub]

Thank you very much!

[@77bubba00]

Good video! I grew up about 200 yards away from the canal in Pendleton, NY, but I'm always learning new things about it. Spent a lot of time fishing for bullhead and sunfish when I was a kid. Thanks!

[@yankees29]

My cousin went to college at Niagara. So did my uncle. The closest I ever came to Pendleton was when I camped over night at a state park right on Lake Erie. We were on tour with the band Phish in 1997. We saw the Darien Lake show. Great times.

[@77bubba00]

@yankees29 the Phish tour also stopped in Plattsburgh, close to where I live now. I didn't move back until 2000 so I missed it. 😞

[@yankees29]

@@77bubba00 I was at the Plattsburgh show in 1995

[@yankees29]

@@77bubba00 it was called the Clifford Ball if you want to look it up.

[@77bubba00]

@@yankees29 Thanks. Yes, I did know that. :) Several of my friends were there. I was stationed at that base before it closed.

[@michaelchristie6830]

Most excellent video!! I love spending time at the Waterford Flight, and it's a great place to visit!! This was a very well done view of the canal, and for someone who has been near the canal his whole life, it was appreciated!!

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@steved5023]

As a kid back in the 60 s. Me and a couple friends would spend the summers traveling the canal from north tonawanda to Seneca lk, Oswego to lk Champlain We had old rechardson wooden boats. It was one of the best times of my life

[@megatheriumclub]

That's a crazy adventure. How long did that take?

[@steved5023]

We were gone most of the summer. There were many different trips. All summer in 1000 islands. Out from Oswego. Six weeks to lk Champlain 2-3 weeks to lk Seneca I think every summer for 4-5 years we went on adventures. Then in 71 we came all the way to Fl. Via inland waterway. They we had to grow up lol. Home, family, kids. Now it seems a lifetime ago. And it was

[@andrep8287]

@@steved5023 ....this sound like you experienced your proverbial bucket list while you were still young enough to enjoy it. Good for you ;-)

[@steved5023]

@@andrep8287 yes the first 25 years were the best of my life. So thankful for that time.

[@GARYDefilipps]

I grew up 100 yards from the canal in Holley . I learned to fish there . My father use to raise and lower the lift bridge . I owned a few apt houses the backed up to the canal loop . One was a marina and let rooms . Very historic . I was in Buffalo at canal side where they were making an authentic canal boat .

[@charlesroberts6965]

Truly an amazing video...as a history buff I found it to be extremely well done. Appreciate you sharing your amazing adventure. Sincerest Thanks.😎🇺🇸⛴️😇

[@megatheriumclub]

Our pleasure!

[@murcielagoligero]

Que interesante documental, he leido mucho sobre el canal y al principio eran mulas a la orilla del canal que remolcaban las embarcaciones, un saludo desde Venezuela

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for watching!

[@edamundson743]

My Great grandmother and her family left from Boonville NY traveled down the Erie to Buffalo on their way to their new home Cambria, WI. Was there a connecting canal from Boonville to Utica? Awesome video.

[@megatheriumclub]

I don't have that info... maybe someone in the comments can help you with that.

[@varunfred7791]

I live in New York State I know what a canal means I didn’t know it existed in NY state thanks for the wonderful video knowledge is power. God bless this wonderful country USA and planet earth

[@nickpedicini2108]

I lived in Rochester for several years in the 90’s and biked and ran on the towpath. It was only sporadically developed at that point. Towns like Pittsfield and Fairport (my home) had paved park sections. Interestingly, the current path through Rochester was a result of the 1916 revamp for barges. The canal path was shifted south and Today, the I-480 freeway spur through downtown runs in the old canal bed.

[@jonnyem.8859]

Great presentation! I grew up beside the Erie Canal in the '50's in Henpeck, to the west of Rochester. First memories were watching the barges and hearing the tug's horns. Just wanted to mention something that would have been a bit of interest. You could have shown the canal's original path through Rochester if you were just one bridge over. There is a double-decker arch bridge 50 yards to the north of the single arch bridge you showed. The lower of those arch bridges once held the Erie Canal as it traversed the Genesee River. After the canal was moved south, it held the subway, as the road for cars was built over it.

[@firesurfer]

I was in Brockport for the eclipse. I planned to see it right on the banks of the canal. Unfortunately the canal was drained for the winter and it was overcast for the eclipse. What a bummer. I saw a whole bunch of nothing. At least the Kodak museum was open and we traveled south for the Corning museum and onward to the Bethel museum. (Woodstock) Never ever take the back roads to Bethel. Just take 17B like everyone else.

[@woodstocker1969]

Bethel, NY......Cool. Would love to go there again. Haven't been there since August '69. Ha!

[@annemariem5084]

You have to admit the ECLIPSE was still AMAZING even though we didn't get to experience tge full event. I was in Rochester and captured pics of sunrise & sunset. Sadly clouds made their entrance a few hours before, and continued for a while after. Though disappointed, I'll never forget the magic of TOTALITY as darkness rapidly came over us, solar lights came on, coolness was felt. A spiritual experience. 4/8/2024

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

So, the eclipse was when you couldn't see the sun. And, you didn't see the sun. Mission accomplished!

[@peteheyde7999]

You always know your neighbor. You always know your pal. If you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal!

[@megatheriumclub]

Someone had to do it. Nice work

[@peterszar]

I live in Clarence, a Eastern suburb of Buffalo, NY and use the Middleport access to the paved former tow path for a walkabout. This video has really peaked my interest about the canal and the towns bordering it. Now I will have to plan a trip to visit the places you featured, very cool video.

[@puppx13]

Great video. I never been to the canal or NY but looks like a interesting and historical place to visit. Thanks. ---Watts, CA.

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Papag53]

Thank you

[@CaroleRowe-Zaeske]

My grandparents traveled west on the Erie Canal in 1856 to a connection by steam ship to Sheboygan WI.

[@megatheriumclub]

Have you been back to check out the route?

[@Quadrille763]

Great video

[@megatheriumclub]

Great comment!

[@chrisnicol1644]

Great travel log...

[@megatheriumclub]

Much appreciated

[@joshlewis3069]

What a great documentary. Although I'm kind of sad about the Schoharie crossing aqueduct. There's even a stabilization project going on there right now. I was just there yesterday, and to see the 200 year old structure up close because the dams on the Mohawk aren't closed is awe inspiring.

[@megatheriumclub]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@robynsineadsheppard6480]

Hey, Rochester! Wake up! Why don't we celebrate the old canal district the way Buffalo does? No wonder they're siphoning tourists away from us! I've lived in Rochester for 12 years, and I've learned more about the Erie Canal during this 30-minute video than in all of those 12 years combined. Thanks!

[@megatheriumclub]

Rochester is a cool city, good luck with getting people to pay attention. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@sueradke4506]

Nice video. Wish you showed the low bridge in Lockport that is part of the Eerie Canal song. All should visit and take a ride on the Eerie Canal.

[@dalejanes8122]

You completely missed Lock #17 in Little Falls. It was at one time it was the highest liftlock 40.5 ft. in the world, and is different from the normal Canal locks in the way it functions. You also have Moss Island with it's very large water carved Potholes.

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for sharing!

[@brett76544]

There was the old Chenango Canal that went downfrom Utica to the Susquehanna River in Binghamton.

[@megatheriumclub]

People don’t realize how many canals there used to be.

[@ramonaschlaegel6402]

There were also the Genesee Canal and the Black River Canal.

[@snuffmaster60]

Very well done video..🙂

[@GarrettOtt-ls2ml]

Wow Utica I could hop on my bike and be there in 10 mins but there really is quite an extension network of bike paths most of them have plaques along the paths that I dont really think twice bout 😅

[@rogue107]

Nice video. (But it's pronounced Sko-Hare- eee and. Oz-WE- go) I l live near the Saratoga Battlefield. Very detailed overview and well done!

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks for the info!

[@K177urLeaders]

Aus-we-go.....not Oz. Schuylerville.....meh

[@melissal6514]

very good!!!

[@galewinds7696]

I've got a mule, her name is 0:19 Sal.......15 miles on the Erie canal...... she's a good worker, and a good old pal. Fifteen miles on the Erie canal.

[@megatheriumclub]

I tried to put that song at the end, but some copyright troll tried to monetize my video for them. So I had to cut it.

[@helenwood1]

Brilliant!

[@megatheriumclub]

Nice of you to say something

[@billstarr9396]

I applaud you for your presentation on the Erie Canal. I am a bit disappointed that you skipped over the terminus of the Eric Canal in Waterford. There is a flight of locks in Waterford. Throughout the village are preserved remnants of the Champlain Canal. Waterford also supports several parks center around the canals and a beautiful recently built heritage center on the waterfront. Unfortunately, in my mind, your wonderful presentation is incomplete by skipping over Waterford, NY.

[@megatheriumclub]

I went there, but by the end of the trip I had contracted the flu and was in pretty rough shape. I didn't do it justice in video, so I edited the video into it's current form. Everyone loves their local sections of the canal and there was no way I could do every section the justice it deserves.

[@joefin5900]

Rowed through the Baldswinville lock when part of the Syracuse Crew.

[@megatheriumclub]

That's a wild way to exercise.

[@mstudios5637]

Cayouuuga, Osweeeeego. Great and informative video!

[@allenhunsaker9530]

Excellent. Thank 😢

[@allenhunsaker9530]

Thank you 👍

[@kelly3560]

Hey from the Erie Canal terminus at the Chesapeake Bay..👋

[@Itasca57]

I love turning bowls! Can’t wait to see the finished bowl! This is probably my favorite way to dry the rough turned bowls, but I’ve recently been playing with soaking them in denatured alcohol. I’ll probably go back to this, as I am getting cracks in my black cherry. Thanks Carl and Robin!

[@weirdshibainu]

A 300 mile bike path? I know what I'm doing next summer. Thanks for the info.

[@megatheriumclub]

Have fun!

[@tomdarling-fernley3178]

I see Medina Culvert and raise you Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. But that aside, the Erie Canal is mighty impressive.

[@bigben9337]

Sucks the weather wasn't cooperative, but very good video!

[@kimbari9972]

How could you overlook the only functional aquaduct, in Camillus, where you can ride a canal boat over, or canoe beneath, the canal’s intersection with Nine Mile Creek?

[@megatheriumclub]

It’s impossible to hit everything, but thanks for letting people know

[@dotter702]

It is true that Buffalo was originally the physical location of the western end of the Erie Canal. However, as in this video, that fact is often misrepresented as though it is still the case. Today, the canal itself physically ends where it joins with the Niagara River at North Tonawanda. In 1918, the old historical portion of the canal between there and Buffalo was removed. Buffalo’s term “Canalside” is merely an expression that uses the historical route of the canal as a promotional gimmick to support business in its downtown area. Perhaps this misrepresentation of today’s reality may be influenced by the current terminus of the canal between North Tonawanda and Tonawanda at the Niagara River being merely a relatively boring (i.e., non-commercial) place for free public use, with parks, paved trails for walking and biking, and beautiful scenery.

[@garykent4661]

I am Inspired 🤔

[@Paul-lm5gv]

New York state built several arterial canals off from the Erie Canal. One of the lesser known but perhaps most important was the Genesee Valley Canal that linked the Erie Canal in Rochester to Olean in NY's Southern Tier, where it linked up with the Allegheny River. From there adventurous pioneers could float down the Allegheny to Pittsburg and take the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi River! However, by the 1880's, railroads made the Genesee Vallery Canal obsolete and it was closed. The RR closely followed the old canal path. In turn by the 1970s, modern road travel and super-highways were the death knell of the arterial railroads, and the old canal towpath is the Genesee Valley Greenway trail today. And by the 1920s, the Erie Canal came to be regarded as a nuisance and was re-routed outside of the cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Commercial traffic (barges) on the canal slowed and by the 1970s the Erie Canal became more of a recreation attraction/destination which it remains today!

[@terrancemahoney4669]

This is known more today as the Barge Canal. It follows most of the Erie Canal original route.

[@lukeroberts6019]

That's what I was wondering. I grew up in Utica in the 60's and I remember the Mohawk river and the Barge canal. The Erie canal was nonexistent outside the history books.

[@Paul-lm5gv]

8:59 The Court Street dam in Rochester. The purpose of the dam is to actually hold back the Genesee River to raise it to the same level as the Erie Canal a few miles south where they cross eachother. This became necessary in 1919 when the canal was moved out of downtown Rochester. The video does not show the actual Erie Canal aqueduct down river from the dam that carried the canal over the Genesee River. It still stands, a testament to the engineers who built 18 original stone aqueducts by hand to bridge obstacles like rivers, streams and rocky terrain.

[@ravimurthy4605]

Thanks!

[@megatheriumclub]

Honored, thank you!

[@Paul-lm5gv]

18:24 The current Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York was built between 1839 and 1844 - long after the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and War of 1812. It replaced a log palisaded fort.

[@JimDeferio]

This was a very good presentation that moved right along. You did neglect the Black River Canal, though. Were the remains too difficult to access?

[@megatheriumclub]

As with most history, there is way too much to cover and the deeper you dig the more you uncover. There is a lot I left out to follow the parts of the Erie Canal that is still in use. And there’s even more that I don’t know about the canal history, as I’m not an expert in the topic.

[@JimDeferio]

@@megatheriumclub OK. I was just wondering because the Black River Canal, though short, has a very large elevation change and it needed over 100 locks. I used to see parts of it when I would drive north from Rome, NY to Boonville. Excellent video for the extensive length that was covered!

[@larrycamilli9589]

Thank you for not describing the stone-dust surface as "gravel". [So many people misuse the term "gravel" that it's meaningless. -Geologists and road-builders say it's thumb-sized stones mixed with sand.] There is no gravel on the Erie Canalway Trail; I avoid any trail that somebody claims is gravel, although it's probably not necessary - because it isn't really gravel. -As I recall, 20 years ago, there was some coarse crushed stone (gravel without the sand) on the Champlain Canal Trail (the part included as an option on Cycling the Erie Canal. The first time, I rode on the grass; after that, I took NY-32.]

[@mitchellellsworth]

You missed lock 17. I believe it’s the tallest single lift in the whole system

[@josephkelley8634]

My friend, Bob Withington, and I canoed the Canal from Buffalo to Albany. If one has the time ( three weeks) it is the best way to see and experience the Canal.

[@megatheriumclub]

Wow, that's really impressive. Did you camp too?

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

I live right in front of love eight on the Oswego canal. Lake Ontario is a half mile from my building.

[@Paul-lm5gv]

5:58 "These locks are fully operational..." He seems to be referring to the flight of five old original locks. They are not yet fully operational. The five were replaced with two modern locks over 100 years ago. A 2014 and 2019 restoration resulted in three locks being restored with wooden gates, operational for demonstration on Saturdays. Weekdays the lock gates are open and excess canal water is allowed to flow to create a waterfall effect only through the five locks. This water is also used to regulate the water in the canal eastward. All 5 locks were intended to be restored by the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal in 2025 but restoration of the final two locks has been held up by a lack of funding (as of this writing). When fully completed the goal is to allow small water craft like canoes and kayaks to use the restored flight of five locks. I was disappointed there wasn't a picture taken from a vantage point east of the locks, which would clearly show the 'staircase' of locks climbing the 75-foot tall Niagara Escarpment. This was one of the great engineering challenges when they built the canal!

[@fredc3543]

A national treasure.

[@megatheriumclub]

Yep! I'm glad it's preserved.

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Potterville? Enjoy your video.

[@USSSlater]

That's a pretty ship @ 26:27 !

[@warrenhuntley6110]

Nice tour but you did not say anything about Locks 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 better known as the flight , the highest lift in the shortest distance, it is that way because of the Cohoes Falls. The flight get you down to the Champlain canal north or go south to Troy NY and the Federal lock which lowers you into the Hudson river . Where the river becomes Title. IN Troy NY they get a tide. From there you can go to any place in the world.

[@hhrrccbb]

In many developing countries, such solutions are more effective than roads or even railroads. Emerging economies produce raw materials that are highly susceptible to transportation costs. Canalizing rivers would make these economies very competitive without indebting future generations.

[@larryrivers1471]

1:17 A map of the modern barge canal. The erie canal went south of Oneida lake and through Syracuse.

[@daver00lzd00d]

grew up in Lockport, instantly recognized that old green metal lock in the beginning lol also, just fyi Medina is pronounced "Dye-Na" not "Dee-Na". great video!

[@philzail2532]

I've watched a few KZbin channels where boats do traverse the canal.

[@paulcunningham2859]

Cool

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

Grew up 3 miles from it and the Black River canal intersection

[@flatusinteruptus]

Rome ?

[@megatheriumclub]

So much connection for upstate NY

[@BenBBauer]

I’ve been known to leave constructive criticism and snide remarks hear and there however, if this guy put everything into this, is open to learn more about video production techniques… I think he could be one of the next big geographic influencers . If not that part of the new “networks” of content creators

[@megatheriumclub]

Thanks I suppose

[@lindajackson4178]

Read Walter D. Edmund’s books about life on the original Erie Canal.

[@megatheriumclub]

I appreciate the recommendation.

[@jamesalias595]

I really thought it would have been abandoned and filled in, or a dump like "Love Canal" I am surprised that it looks so nice and is functional.

[@donutncoffee7979]

no sir, the difference is the love canal was a failed project that never was really started, erie canal was THE SINGLE most important technological advancement in the east coast, creating almost every city along it, and creating the economies of New York City and Buffalo and allowing trade of the mid west where before none of these points were even thoughts

[@carlsaganlives6086]

I saw that film at a 'stag' party in the '70's.