It runs on rails
http://alloverunique.com/boat-lift-krasnoyarsk-hydroelectric-power-station/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVgql2mkN4c
Not to take anything away from this, it is still a bit crude, in the sense that canal bridges over rivers are. Any government with lots of available funding and good secret police can build what is essentially a lock on top of a funicular. A much more elegant solution, in my opinion, is to use a system like that used on Pennsylvania’s early answer to the Erie Canal, in which the boats themselves were made up of modular ‘containerized’ sections, each of which could be easily put on a special cradle and carried up and down a set of planes to be quickly and easily reassembled at the other end…
But then, only those boats built to those specifications can use it. This one can be used by anything that floats…
The catanary and “pantograph” system is quite a resolution for the routing of power to the boat lift.
The turntable is also quite a feat … saves having doors on both sides.
I am at a loss for words!
A little closer to home is the Big Chute Marine Railway here in Ontario. The same concept but on a mch smaller scale. Also the Lift Lock in Peterborough is a sight to see. I would add the links but this computer doesn’t allow it or at least, I don’t have a clue how to do it.
Big Chute Marine Railway
http://www.visitgeorgianbay.com/lighthouse-marine.cfm?action=1&things_to_doid=119&category=6
Petersbourgh Lift Lock
Falkirk Wheel lift
I’ve learned new things today. I had always heard that there’s more than one way to skin a cat and now I know there is more than two ways to transport a boat between two levels of waterways. Man can devise ingenous ways when the need to do something. Thanks, I had never known about these.
Another type I found is the Anderton Boat Lift
@ D SCHMITT:
Absolutely amazing!
The writer’s comments reminded me of my own astonishment when, as a soldier serving in the war in the old Republic of Viet Nam, I went on a Rest and Recuperation leave to Japan, and visited the Soviet Pavilion at EXPO '70.
I was surprised at the exhibits and scenes of Siberia, which in contrast to my preconceived notions, appeared absolutely beautiful, and similar to what I was familiar with in Oregon, Washington, and Northern Idaho.
Interestingly, rather than waiting in the long line to be admitted to the Soviet Pavilion, according to my instructions at the orientation given at the Rest and Recuperation Reception Center, all I had to do was go to the V.I.P. entrance, show my military identification along with a copy of my orders, and after some amused chuckling by the Russian security personnel, I was ushered right in.