Editing Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (section)

===Steamboats on the canal===
[[Image:Steamboat On Cheasapeake and Ohio Canal.jpg|thumb|150px|A steamboat on the C&O Canal. Note the steering wheel and the smokestack on this boat]] There were occasionally steam boats, one being authorized in 1824.<ref>[[#Unrau|Unrau]] p. 344</ref> In 1850, the N S Denny company operated some steam driven [[tugboats]] on the Canal.<ref>[[#Unrau|Unrau]] p. 345</ref> The board of directors discussed having steamboats for Big Slackwater, but that was abandoned in favor of a towpath along the side. Records indicate that in the 1879, a single steamboat could go {{Convert|3+1/4|mph||abbr=}} loaded downstream, {{Convert|4+1/2|mph||abbr=}} unloaded going upstream, and took 5 to 7 minutes to lock through whether going upstream or downstream (respectively) and used about a ton of coal per day for operation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://candocanal.org/histdocs/Double_Boat_Report.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-11-27 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305061356/http://candocanal.org/histdocs/Double_Boat_Report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>