Very interesting piece of history. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing how it takes 6 weeks to go 400 miles and those poor lock attendants... do they just walk along with the boat to open and close each lock :).
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They're volunteers, three of them. I don't think it's that busy with so many boats going through, but yeah, that's what they do all day, in addition to general maintenance and locking the locks at night time as they don't operate during the night. Sometimes they get help from visitors who like to help. When my sister took her kids there the other month, they had a great time helping to push the locks open.