My bike on the bridge at Lock #12 on the Farmington Canal rail trail in Cheshire, CT. The canal, which ran south to north through Connecticut to Massachusetts, opened for horse pulled barges in 1828. In 1848 a rail line alongside the canal replaced barge traffic, operating until the 1980s.
Lock #12 on the canal (photo) has been restored as well as the gatekeepers house. A museum about the canal on site is currently closed. The Farmington Canal Trail is part of the East Coast Greenway and is approximately 50 miles long starting in New Haven, CT and continuing into Massachusetts to the Southwick rail trail.
