the reverse, but would start on Sunday evening. There were many landings along the way, ones whose names survive into modern times include Taylor's Ferry (later, Taylor's Bridge), Scholl's, Scholl's Ferry, Farmington, Hillsboro and Forest Grove. In 1871, the Tualatin River Navigation & Manufacturing Company began work to complete a continuous navigable waterway from the Tualatin to the Willamette. The company planned to build two canals: one to connect the Tualatin River to Sucker Lake with access to the iron smelter located on its east end; and a second with locks that would connect Sucker Lake to the Willamette via Sucker Creek. The first canal was finished in 1872, but due to low water, was not passed through until January 21, 1873, when Onward made the first trip. With the completion of the Willamette Falls Locks in 1873, and with navigation of the Tualatin River already difficult due to its low water and numerous snags and sinkers, the second canal was never built and the idea of a Sucker Lake passage was never realized. After 1890, business fell off, particularly with the Panic of 1893. By 1895, when the Corps of Engineers declared the Tualatin unnavigable, there was not any river traffic on it anyway. Replica steamboats In much more recent decades, starting in the early 1980s, a number of replica steamboats have been built, for use as tour boats in river cruise service on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Although still configured as sternwheelers, they are non-steam-driven boats or ships, also called motor vessels, powered instead by diesel engines. These tourism-focussed vessels range in size from the Rose to the American Empress (formerly Empress of the North). Others include the M.V. Columbia Gorge, the Willamette Queen, and the Queen of the West''. See also Historic ferries in Oregon List of steamboats on the Columbia River Paddle steamer Riverboat Sternwheeler Jean Steamboat Steamboats of the Columbia River Steamboats of the Mississippi Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers Tourist sternwheelers of Oregon Notes External links Oregon State University image collection Pomona at Corvallis Three Sisters and Wm. M. Hoag, on the Willamette River at Corvallis wharves. Salem Public Library image collection Claude Skinner's steam launch, 1958 Willamette Chief and other vessels, at landing somewhere on Columbia River Three Sisters, 1890s Grahamona being built at East Portland, 1912 Gamecock, renamed Gay Marie and converted to floating apartment house, Nov 12,