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A mule-drawn 1870’s replica boat that has ferried tourists along a short segment of the C&O Canal in Georgetown is set to be destroyed, reports Georgetown Patch.

The National Park Service, which maintained the boat, determined that its continuing upkeep was cost-prohibitive. It was fully rehabbed a few years ago, but was retired in March. Only one other such boat exists on the C&O Canal, in Great Falls. The mule-drawn boats were once used to move goods inland from Washington along the 184-mile-long canal, which extends up to Cumberland, Maryland.

Not all hope is lost, though—in July the park service will launch a number of 30-foot-long battery-powered boats that will take up to 12 tourists at a time up and down one of the functioning locks located in Georgetown.

In April the park service similarly rid itself of another transit relic—a trolley that stood outside Glen Echo Park in Maryland.