We only encountered five or six different locks, passing one in both directions. In that number we had one that raised the gates vertically, one with a pair of hinged gates at one end and a sliding gate at the other and the rest with hinged gates.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Locks
I find locks fascinating. There is something about a technology that is hundreds of years old that so changed transportation in its time and is still basically unchanged.
We only encountered five or six different locks, passing one in both directions. In that number we had one that raised the gates vertically, one with a pair of hinged gates at one end and a sliding gate at the other and the rest with hinged gates.
We only encountered five or six different locks, passing one in both directions. In that number we had one that raised the gates vertically, one with a pair of hinged gates at one end and a sliding gate at the other and the rest with hinged gates.
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O gosh I’m with you Uncle Bobby.
ReplyDeleteI move barges filled with crude oil through US locks frequently and love the genius idea of them.
BTW - hate that Google has decided to use my gmail address (which I never use) and won’t allow me to change it here.
I think next time I'm going to see if there are other blogging options as there are several things I don't like either.
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