>>1328439>Why aren't barges used as much as they used to?River cities in the USA and cities on the great lakes no longer need to receive raw materials and transport out finished goods as they no longer make anything.
Take St. Louis, for example. Ralson Foods used to be based there. They took shipments on giant grain barges of raw grain and turned it into cereals which was then shipped out.
Nowadays they don't have cereal cities like they used to (Buffalo and STL were the big ones) so those good union jobs and good white collar jobs are all gone.
