OHoSPARTACUS t1_j15gb13 wrote
Reply to comment by bcsimms04 in When this bridge in Fort Benton, Montana, USA was built 1888 it was required to have a swing span to allow steamboats to navigate. It was considered the furthest navigable point on Earth, more than 2,700 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. by triviafrenzy
The Colorado river is full of rapids and waterfalls though, how could it have ever been navigable by steam?
platitood t1_j15jn1s wrote
They put the steam on a boat.
bcsimms04 t1_j16rknb wrote
Up in Colorado it is. But in the last few hundred miles in Arizona past the grand canyon it is a normal lazy flowing river
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboats_of_the_Colorado_River?wprov=sfla1
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