(Cycle-Touring the St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain and Erie Canal) If you are a regular reader of Bicycle Paper, you may recall I’ve written about my discovery of the lost art of canal biking in my home city of London, and followed it up by riding across southwest France on the canal from the Mediterranean to… Continue reading 2014: Cycling Historic Waterways from Quebec City to Buffalo
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2014 – Vintage Erie Canal Tug Goes All-Electric
1920’s Tug Converted to Battery-Electric Drive – copyright Peter Marsh On Labor Day Weekend, 2014, purely by chance, I arrived by bike at the Waterford Tug Round Up in New York state at the east end of the Erie Canal. There were 30 vintage tugs on display, some old enough that they were once powered… Continue reading 2014 – Vintage Erie Canal Tug Goes All-Electric