BUCKHORN -- Few people make history come alive like Herman Jones. From restoring old railcars to constructing model donkey gins, the 71-year-old Columbia County man has given new life to the iron ...

WEBVTT ONE U-M-K-C CLASSROOM MOVES OUTDOORS THIS WEEKEND. IT'S A PRETTY IMPRESSIVE FEAT FOR THE STUDENTS AND PROFESSOR WHO ARE BUILDING IT.... ITS A WORKING MODEL OF THE PANAMA CANAL "LOCK SYSTEM"..

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A model replica of the historic Erie Canal boat the “Seneca Chief” is on display at the Hudson Valley Maritime Museum, according to a statement released Friday. The model boat, built ...

BERN – From cramped sleeping quarters to canal boats that served as a salad bar, the newest exhibitsat the C. Howard Hiester Canal Center offer a life-size look at the confined and celebratory sidesof ...

Craig Hladik smiled Tuesday as he pushed a small boat through a 90-foot, water-filled model canal system wrapped around two walls of the National Canal Museum in downtown Easton. Craig, 7, laughed and ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. In 1809, representatives from the state of New York traveled to the nation's capital to meet with President Thomas ...

A steam-powered cargo boat, a tugboat that traveled the Great Lakes, a railroad barge, and a replica of the Independence, a packet boat built for the Erie Canal Village in Rome, New York, inspired ...

Morris Canal Inclined Plane 6 East in Rockaway Sept 2, 1906 photographed by Olin Vough. (Courtesy of the Roxbury Historical Society) On Monday, Sept. 14, visit Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in ...