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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I have always lived along the coast. Not by any major rivers. I don't know if the rivers here have locks on them. Perhaps they do. Maybe someone that lives near some of them... like the Ohio or the Mississippi or the Colorado or whatever can tell me.
The only locks I knew about were the ones in the Panama Canal.
Wait, I think once I saw part of the Erie canal (I grew up in New England so New York wasn't far) and saw the locks and also the tow paths that the donkeys used to be on to tow the boats through. That was quite a long time ago though. (Now I don't remember if I actually saw them, or just saw one of them boring filmstip presentations in school).
BOb
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well there you are then.
we've got the tow paths here as well because the canal is used for a lot of freight carried on barges and in the past, before motor barges, it would be towed by horses sometimes. i imagine most canals have locks because since they are man made they probably frequently change levels quite a lot, depending on the landscape.