>
>> >
>> >On the way home, we stopped in Seneca, IL just before sunset so I could
>> get
>> >a photo of the M. J. Hogan grain elevator, one of the oldest original
>> >structures along the I&M. It was opened in 1862, and is still standing.
>> >Back in its heyday, it could move 750,000 bushels of grain in a season.
>> >
>>
>> <<SNIP>>
>>
>> That restored section looks like it would be an ideal cycling tour
>
>
>Actually, except for parts that got washed out in the major storms we had
>last April, you can ride the whole towpath from Joliet, IL to LaSalle. It's
>been designated a heritage corridor. Sadly, the DNR doesn't seem to be in
>any hurry to repair the aqueduct that was damaged in the flooding, so that
>whole section of the canal is now dry.
>
That would be an interesting journey. We have similar hiking/cycling
paths in Pennsylvania along abandoned logging railroad grades.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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