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#2 of my Utrecht collection.
This is a door locked in a big cathedral in Utrecht. I really love how it looks so old!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend:)
When getting married, in some places the couple leaves a lock in a bridge. I saw lots of them in this one.
I wonder what they do with the key.
Keila-joa, Estonia.
I watched a guy from my perch on the benches on 6th Ave in New York City- he carried his book and bag over to this lock, pulled out a can of WD-40, sprayed the lock, used a key to open it... and then closed it again, leaving it here.
I want to know the story. Got one?
This lock has been preserved in superficial working order since at least the 1970s. Even if it were working it would serve no purpose as about fifty yards further north the canal is culverted under Pentre Lane. Ironically, the locks between Pentre Lane and Ty Coch have been restored to working order even though the navigable stretch of the canal finishes about two miles further north at Five Locks, Pontnewydd, and the canal is culverted at Pentre Lane and Hollybush Way, isolating this section.
Lock control building at Lock 9 on the Erie Canal.
Photographed on Kodak Kodachrome 64 using a NIkkor 18mm f/4 lens on a NIkon F5.
2007-07-14 Biertan, Transylvania, Romania: 19 locks in one, but now unfortunately broken by tourists. The lock won a prize at the World Expo in Paris in 1900. Photograph by Aleksander Rabl.
The lock is cool. You line up the basket hooks with the wire at the base of the basket (down at the bottom in the picture), then you turn the handle of the basket from one side to the other, which allows the end of the handle to slide into a catch, and locks the basket. The opposite -- uncatching it by just lifting the handle, in the intuitive way -- is cool.
The lock in Minetto is near the Minetto Bridge. Near this lock there are stone abutments in the water. These were part of the second Minetto Bridge, built in 1872. There is a lot of history that can be learned along the river
The "Sault Ste. Marie Canal", or the "Canadian Locks". First built in 1798, then we (the USA) wrecked 'em in the War of 1812. The Canadians showed us... they rebuilt 'em by 1895, and it was the largest and the first electrically operated lock in the world. In 1909, there was a bit of a hubbub at the locks. Here, I'll let Wiki tell ya...
On June 9, 1909 the locks were seriously damaged when the Perry G. Walker, owned by the Gilchrist Transportation Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, crashed into the south main gate, forcing it back and allowing the force of water to push the north main gate over. The rush of water threw the Walker back and carried two other ships downstream, one of which struck the south main gate, breaking it diagonally in two. [3] The rush of water through the destroyed locks was stopped by activation of the Emergency Swing Bridge Dam[4], allowing repairs to commence. Amazingly, there was no loss of life or injury associated with this disaster, and repairs required only 12 days, with the bridge reopening on June 21, 1909.
Kee-rist... what a mess that was.
This is no longer a commercial lock. Most traffic is either the Soo Locks tour boats, or pleasure craft. I inquired about this, and was told that I could actually paddle a canoe into the locks, and they'd lock me through, for free. All that's required is that I have a length of rope to be tied off while the operation is going on. (About three feet is what they want.) Man, I'm SO tempted to go rent a canoe and do this. Imagine... big ol' locks operating because MY dumbass is coming though in a canoe. The idea tickles me.
This is the Chickamauga Lock and the coffer dam where a new lock is being constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District at Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2010. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)
Blanchetown - home of Lock No. 1 and Riverland gateway. A Murray River township 135km north-east of Adelaide, and 275 kms from the Murray Mouth. In its hey-days Blanchetown was an important riverbank terminal where goods were offloaded from paddlesteamers to be cleared through the local Customs House. The town's prosperity suffered when the railway by-passed it in favour of upstream Morgan. Blanchetown was one of the first river settlements in South Australia. Surveyed in 1855, the town was named by Governor Sir Richard Graves McDonnell after his wife Lady Blanche McDonnell. It began life as a stopover point and watering place for mail contractors and coaches carrying passengers on the "Sydney Road" as it was then known.
The first of a series of seven locks on the Murray in South Australia (William Randell Lock in honour of the pioneer of river navigation in the 1800's) was completed in 1922.