r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 19d ago

History Analogous to data centres?

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u/Bladrak01 19d ago

It's not just the Midwest. I live near Richmond, in Central VA, and there's a canal there.

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 19d ago

In NJ there's the D&R canal which has been converted to an amazing bike path. In PA you can ride the GAP/C&O (rail trail/canal trail) from Pittsburgh to DC.

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u/king_rootin_tootin 18d ago

The D&R canal was actually finished and worked pretty well for decades.

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u/Past_Day_8263 19d ago

Connecticut has something similar in the Farmington Canal Trail, stretches from New Haven all the way up to the Massachusetts border

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u/entered_bubble_50 19d ago

Same in the UK, though a lot were finished. My cycle route to work is along an abandoned canal, it's very peaceful.

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u/Gnagus 19d ago

The canals were used much earlier in Britain and some continued on after the railroad boom partially because geography made them useful for "last mile" delivery. Most went into disrepair mid 19th century but restoration was a public space began post WWII.

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u/Natural_Youth_5941 19d ago

They literally tried to cut Florida in half with one

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u/MrScribblesChess 19d ago

Ah, the Panama City Canal, I heard a ship got stuck there

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u/EuenovAyabayya 19d ago

East Coast canals were largely in business before the railroads and justified their own costs.