Enlarged Erie Canal Locks #36, #37, #38 & #39 at Little Falls, NY

#36: (Satellite) Barge Canal Lock #17 is just a few hundred feet upstream.

See map below for the location of these lost locks.

#37: (Satellite)

#38: (Satellite)

#39: (Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Lock #36. We see the control house of the Barge Canal Lock #17 in the right background.

Street View, Jun 2024

The Ted Wind Bridge carries NY-169 over the Barge Canal.

Dan, Jun 2024

Joel Torres posted, cropped
Is that a baby Bigfoot at Lock 36 in Little Falls 🤔🤣

Joel Torres posted two photos with the comment:

Enlarged Erie Canal [LOCK36] looking good.

4-12-26.— in Little Falls, NY.

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The other three locks have been erased by the Barge Canal construction. Four Enlarged Canal Locks were needed to handle the 40' (12m) lift of Barge Canal Lock #17.

Little Falls NY Historical Society Museum posted via Dennis DeBruler
Red Arrow- is the location of Lock 36, Green Arrow is the location of Lock 37, Blue Arrow- is the location of Lock 38, and Yellow Arrow- is the location of Lock 39 | Orange marks the Enlarged Erie Canal of 1862.

Cori Willson posted five images with the comment:

Old Lock #36, Enlarged Erie Canal – East Little Falls, New York

This historic view shows one of the four sets of double-chamber locks that carried the Enlarged Erie Canal through the tight corridor at Little Falls. You can see the Mohawk River flowing to the right, with Moss Island visible in the middle-right of the frame.

The Little Falls locks were never extended. Both chambers remained 18 feet wide and 110 feet long. While many Erie Canal locks in the 1880s were "doubled" or lengthened to accommodate tandem tows in a single lockage, the closely spaced locks at Little Falls (and a few other locations) kept their original configuration.

Today, modern Lock E-17 replaces all four of these old locks, handling the entire combined lift of 40.5 feet in a single chamber—the largest lift on the modern New York State Canal System. One of the original chambers from this historic lock can still be seen near the foot of E-17.

— at Erie Canal Lock 17.