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More info on & pictures of the older coal (& feldspar) docks and car ferrys:

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/C ... _Ferry.htm

http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychao ... Docks.html

http://www.lowerfalls.org/maplewood/charlotte.php

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/254 ... 49d0_o.jpg

Rochester New York still gets most of its cement by boat, usually the converted package freighter Stephen B Roman or the ex canaller>unpowered barge Metis. These are generally the only commercial boats still serving the port.

I was surprised to see new docks at the ESSROC>Lehigh Hanson cement terminal, and was told by a local that vandals burned the old one a couple of years ago (that's in addition to the major wooden coal docks and trestles they torched back in the 1970s).

Here are a couple of Google aerials of the recent change at N43° 13.601', W77° 36.981'