Question: What Canal allows a navigable water route from New York City to the Great Lakes and was created shortly after Blackstone River Valley?

The Blackstone Viaduct, or the New York & New England Railroad Viaduct is a historic viaduct in Blackstone, Massachusetts.  The viaduct was built in 1872 by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad and the American Bridge Company.  The viaduct is 1600 ft long structure, consisting of masonry arches and earthen embankments in the Massachusetts portion of the village of Waterford.  It runs from the Blackstone River in the east to a still-watered section of the defunct Blackstone Canal to the west.  The most prominent portion of the structure is an 800-foot earthen embankment running west from the river that is 25 ft high, and then a 375 ft multiple-arch masonry bridge constructed out of granite which was sheathed in concrete in 1918.  The structure was built as part of a project by the Boston, Hartford and Erie to build a complete run between New York City and Boston. <SEP> Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.  The Blackstone River Valley was the site of some of the earliest successful textile mills in the United States, and these mills contributed significantly to the earliest American Industrial Revolution.  The park was created for the purpose of preserving, protecting, and interpreting the industrial heritage of the Blackstone River Valley and the urban, rural, and agricultural landscape of that region.  The subsequent construction of the Blackstone Canal, a few years after the successful completion of the Erie Canal, helped to sustain the region's industrial strength. <SEP>  Originally, it ran 363 mi from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie.  It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.  When completed in 1825, it was the second longest canal in the world (after the Grand Canal in China) and greatly affected the development and economy of New York, New York City, and the United States. The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). <SEP> Historic Sayre Yard, named after the chief Engineer and first Superintendent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV) was established across the stateline in 1876 in Waverly, New York and Sayre, Pennsylvania.  The large yard, and the purpose built company town, Sayre, Pennsylvania were founded as part of a planned program of expansion and extension to the young railroad's infrastructure—the yard was but one benchmark on the way to completing the goal of establishing competitive passenger rail service between New York City, as well as cities in Delaware such as Wilmington, cities in central New Jersey such as Trenton, and Eastern Pennsylvania cities including Philadelphia with Chicago and other Great Lakes Cities via Buffalo, New York.  The Lehigh Valley was primarily first and foremost a coal road which transported high grade Anthracite to the big cities of the east and to steel mills along the Great Lakes and to the area in and around Chicago.  The yard is a way point along the historic rail corridor that extends along the left bank Susquehanna River through the RBMN Duryea Yard and Mountain Top Yards down along the route of the historic Lehigh Canal and across the Delaware at Easton, Pennsylvania.