Canal Corp Boats 2

Here was the first in what could be a series.   And this foto I’m happy again to credit  to Bob Stopper, some of whose photos can be seen here.   I’m not sure what the naming system is for Canal Corporation, but some of their vessels are named for towns with locks–like Pittsford— along the Canal.

Ditto–in this foto from my sister—Waterford.   By the way, the pre-eminent website for all things Erie Canal is fred’s at tug44.

In push gear and looking great at 85 years old, it’s Governor Cleveland.

If I still lived up that way, I’d get one of these, a buoy boat.

I don’t know how many of these there once were, but they are disappearing!

Click here for a foto of this deep looking Governor Roosevelt with her belly exposed.

There’s Grand Erie, and then there’s just plain Erie.

Then there are the self-propelled scows, but notice the difference in

engine exposure between this one shot by my sister and

SPS-54 shot by me

in August in Lyons.

Thanks to Bob and Lucy for these fotos.  The last two are mine.