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Loaded lumber boats, May 12, 1905, Tonawanda, N.Y., ready to start down the canal, then scheduled to open in a few days. Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
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Construction of the Bascule Bridge over the Barge Canal at Tonawanda, 1920.
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Tonawanda Canal Terminal. Barge Canal craft delayed due to heavy ice floes in Niagara River. Shown here: 3 steel canal boats, 2 wooden steamers, 1 wooden tug, and several stavebowed wooden barges used in the early years. Photo circa May, 1926.
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A steel three-section, bolted-together, self-propelled empty grain barge passing thru the Tonawandas. Two of them owned by the Cagill Grain Co. were once in use on the Barge Canal. Courtesy of Historical Society of the Tonawandas.
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A steel steam towboat and three steel barges designed to fill a Barge Canal lock. The boats were built as a WWI emergency fleet. Due to a railroad car shortage they were instead used to haul grain to eastern seaboard for Europe. Buffalo & Erie Cty H.S.
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A diesel tug and a row of loaded barges head for Buffalo. This section of the Barge Canal is the deep land cut between Pendleton and the rock cut above Lockport. Photo circa 1940.
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A pair of eastbound grain boats leaving Lockport, N.Y. The sectional wheelhouse must be taken down when the boats pass thru the empty canal. Photo circa early 1900s.
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A single canal boat and team moving westward through the Lockport rock cut. The planks on the towpath just ahead of the team on the left cover an animal escape hole.
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Canal boat being swelled out of lower downbound lock at Lockport, N.Y. Photo circa 1890s.
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New concrete barge U.S. 107 tied up at Ellicott Creek Boatyard, Tonawanda, NY, midsummer 1919. Scaffold hanging from port bow indicates the boat was there for repairs.
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