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Scottish Canals (Scottish Gaelic: Canàlan na h-Alba) is the Scottish Government body responsible for managing the country's inland waterways. Formerly a division of British Waterways , it became a stand-alone corporation on 2 July 2012, then an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government in April 2020.
America's Marine Highway - a federal government initiative; I-40 bridge disaster - where a barge crashed into an interstate bridge; Big Bayou Canot rail accident - where a barge crashed into a railway bridge; Inland Waterway (Michigan) The Waterways Journal Weekly - trade publication; Container on barge - mode of transport; Roll-on/roll-off car ...
Patowmack Canal (Potomac Canal) MD: 1795 1828 Consists of the Little Falls Canal, Great Falls Canal, Seneca Falls Canal, Payne's Falls Canal, and House Falls Canal VA: Pawtucket Canal: MA: 1796 Pennsylvania Canal: PA: Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal: PA: 1840 1877 82 mi (132 km) OH: Portage Canal: WI: 1876 1951 2 mi (3.2 km) Powell's Canal: VA
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford .
Proposed by Governor of New York De Witt Clinton, the Erie was the first canal project undertaken as a public good to be financed at public risk through the issuance of bonds. [9] When the project was completed in 1825, the canal linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie via 83 separate locks and over a distance of 363 miles (584 km).
Stockingfield Junction is a canal junction which lies between Maryhill and Ruchill in Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in 1777, [1] and closed in 1963, followed by restoration and a re-opening in 2022. [2] At first a terminus it formed the junction for the Port Dundas branch off the Forth and Clyde Canal main line from 1777. [1] [3]
A branch of the Forth & Clyde Canal runs from Falkirk to the River Carron, near Grangemouth. [8] [9] The path continues along the towpath of the Union Canal, through Linlithgow, past the red shale bings which are all that remains of Scotland's oilshale industry, and through the outskirts of Edinburgh. [10]
"A New Map of the Isthmus of Darien in America, The Bay of Panama, The Gulph of Vallona or St. Michael, with its Islands and Countries Adjacent". In A letter giving a description of the Isthmus of Darian, Edinburgh: 1699. The Scottish settlement of New Edinburgh can be seen on the coast above right.