Sunday, July 29, 2007
More About Trent Severn Big Chute Lock
This sequence shows Looper boat Carole Anne entering the chamber of the Big Chute. Slings are placed manually under the hull as appropriate to support each boat in the chamber. The chamber holding the boat(s) is hauled up a railroad track out of the water and over a highway. The boat is literally high and dry as you look down at the waterway. When the chamber containing the boat(s) reaches the end of the "track" and back into the water, the boat floats free. You are then on your way again through the Trent-Severn Waterway. The purpose of this particular lock configuration was to avoid the migration of invasive fish species into other lakes. While this is not technically a lock, it is yet another engineering marvel on the system of Canadian historic canals.
