Later in her active career she hauled barges on Great Slave Lake.
Before that I spent some time hauling barges up the Allegheny.
It is a song about the burlaks who hauled barges a..
The underground stations are decorated with small, original murals from the 1930's that show life along the canal - everything from mules hauling barges to naked boys diving into the water.
Some of those were hauling barges, and other barges had been fitted with basic lug-sail rigs.
Mapes owned the sidewheeler General Jackson which had the contract to haul barges for the D&H Canal Company and he also owned a stage line running from Rondout into the Catskills.
Upstream, tugs can haul barges as far as the BAM, but this is becoming rare.
There had been many inclined plane lifts before this one, but none having such complex features, and capable of hauling fully loaded barges still afloat in full tanks.
On the banks, proud cavalrymen were being forced to use their horses like dray animals to haul barges closer to firm ground.
While both types also haul barges, the cargo ship also carries cargo on deck.