He anticipates an improvement in the Use of steam on the canal in place of horses for towing. That, no doubt, will be an improvement, as coming nearer to the principle of railroad operations ...

Some 50 miles in length, the canal would be less than half ... Gigantic Bucyrus steam shovels scooped tons of earth. Railroad cars ran continuously on a double track, dumping the tailings to ...

ALBANY, April 12 -- The Delaware and Hudson Company is to construct a canal 700 feet long by 96 feet wide and 20 feet deep across Van Rensselaer Island, at the South end of Albany, on the Hudson ...

By 1880, the railroads expanded and the Welland Canal locks enlarged ... and each had to blast their steam whistle to signal their course change,” the MSRA said in the release.

When the canal has seven feet of water, and boats propelled by steam carry 240 tuns, a further great reduction will then be made; and if railroads cannot now compete, what will be their position then ...