Query:

[ashling]

What would you do with a canal to the moon when the railroad gets you there a lot more soon?

[mr_lebowski]

1. Put things who's delivery is not time-critical on the canal to save energy nt

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Turn the canal into a walking trail

That's what they do 'round here

[ashling]

3. And

you want to drive your car anyway, but you don't want to go from Buffalo to Albaneeeeee

[flotsam]

4. Low Bridge, Everybody down....N/T

[BuffaloJackalope]

5. ...'cause you'll always know your neighbor, you'll always know your pal...

Learned that one in grade school ... many decades ago

[Dagstead Bumwood]

6. Ah, the Erie canal song.

Had that damn song rattling around in my brain since the 1970s. "Fifteen miles, on the Erie Canal! We've hauled some barges in our day, filled with lumber, coal and hay..."