Erie Canal

Link-Belt Cranes - Mon July 19, 2021

D.A. Collins Completes Erie Canal Work With 248 HYLAB, ATC-3275

As part of New York State Canal Corporation's emergency repair program, construction is complete on Erie Canal Lock E-7 in Niskayuna, N.Y. Maintenance and repairs were finalized prior to May 15, 2021, when navigation season of the Erie Canal begins....

Mary Yamin-Garone – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 22, 2021

D.A. Collins, Link-Belt Join Forces to Fix Erie Canal Lock Gate

As the saying goes, "It takes a village."Recently, D.A. Collins and Link-Belt Cranes joined forces to pick Collins' 200-ton Link-Belt crawler crane out of the Lock 7 chamber in Niskayuna, N.Y. According to David Perry, D.A....

Associated Press - Thu December 27, 2018

Fifteen Aging Bridges on the Erie Canal Set for Repair Work

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - New York state will embark next year on a multi-year project that will make tens of millions of dollars in repairs to aging bridges spanning the Erie Canal in western New York. The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester reported that the Department of Transportation will spend as much as $50 million to fix 15 trusses and lift bridges located in Monroe, Orleans and Wayne counties....

Pete Sigmund - Wed July 19, 2017

A Work of True Grit: Erie Canal Celebrates Bicentennial

I've got a mule, her name is Sal15 miles on the Erie Canal…Low bridge, everybody downLow bridge, for we're coming to a townThis song is one of the many echoing through the many generations since men dug shovels into earth in Rome, N.Y., on July 4, 1817, in the groundbreaking of the nation's first great infrastructure project, the Erie Canal....