Narrow boats.
Small boats and pleasure craft uses the Erie Canal today. It is also a cycling trail and used for fishing. But there still is some commercial traffic.
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It is a canal.
The Chemung Canal was very similar to the Erie Canal. It connected the Finger Lakes region of New York with the Susquehanna River. Both canals used barges or packet boats.
They are useful because they are the source of which many boats travel on. It is also very traditional in Dutch culture and many other cultures too.
Yes the Erie Canal is still in business today. Much of it is now recreation but there is still commercial traffic such as barges of corn from Canada to be turned into ethanol.https://www.npr.org/2013/06/25/195426326/commercial-shipping-revived-along-erie-canal
Storybook Land Canal Boats was created in 1994.
It transports boats from the Forth and Clyde canal to the Union canal and vice versa
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