Canal and River navigation, some links.
I really like to do cruising on the french canal and river network. There is a big transportation potential. Unfortunately it is not used enough, sometimes practically not at all.
I feel myself as a living part of the industrial archeology of the last 2 centuries.
While I am going through an automatic lock I imagine the boatpeople, the tow - people (is that good English?) and the lockkeeper doing their quite hard jobs.
All of the canals have interesting places, sometimes difficult to locate. These engineers of the past have all my esteem for doing so fine work, finding the ideal trace of the canals with the then known technologies.
Le Canal des Ardennes en mars. The Ardennes - Canal in March
Barge coming out of the St.Aignan tunnel (built
in 1892)
(These 2 pictures by Eliane Klein)
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| The canal de la marne au rhin. | River Meuse upstream of Mouson |
Lock in the valley of Montgon (Canal de Ardennes)
Old map showing the waterways around the Ardennes:
Some interesting links:
Le Canal de la Haute-Saône: http://www.teaser.fr/~pgreuter/canal.htm
The planned for canal from the Meuse to the Moselle: http://users.swing.be/depierpont.g/cmm.index.html