Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — New York’s Barge Canal. [ARTICLE]

New York’s Barge Canal.

New York’s barge canal promises to be invaluable as a means of cheap freight transportation and also to stimulate other interests. Syracuse will have a barge canal terminal and the city is considering the construction of a belt line railroad to accommodate the traffic to and from rail to water routes. This is significant as to what is likely to follow the opening of the barge canal and operation at full capacity. The movement is also suggestive of the close relations that may be established between railroad and canal. The old idea of uncompromising hostility has been exploded, declares the Troy Times, Each can make uss of the other in developing traffic that will represent valuable service to the public, and the outcome will be expansion of freight-carrying facilities to meet jthe requirements of a country hi which industrial progress, great as it has been, is alight compared with what Is to. come.