The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

In April 1835, an elegant new vessel entered the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Dam No. 5 and descended about six miles to the boat basin at Williamsport, Md. It was the Lady Washington, a “handsomely ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — In 1825, travelers navigated 83 locks. I crossed one. They traversed nearly 400 miles. I went 7. They saw the whole thing from mule-pulled barges. I was on the Lil’ Diamond II. We all ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers has called it one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World”—and this summer, the Panama Canal became even more wonderful. That’s because a $5-billion expansion ...