What century were the Leiper Canal and Duluth Ship Canal built?
Leiper Canal Early in the 19th century, the Leiper Canal built in 1828-29 during the middle of the American canal age ran about 3 mi along Crum Creek in Delaware County to its mouth in Eastern Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley carrying its owners quarried products to docks on the Delaware River tidewater until 1852.
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR) is a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that hauls iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Control of the railway was acquired on May 10, 2004, by the Canadian National Railway (CN) when it purchased the assets of Great Lakes Transportation.