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Something happened to my laptop lock and the combination I set stopped working. This happened while the laptop was locked to a desk. My red handled lock pick did a good job of unlocking my laptop.
The lock keeper would let us children wind the mechanism shown here to open the lock gates. We were also allowed to open and close the wooden swing bridge.
On the UP Belvidere Sub, UP LPW14, the Belvidere Local was held near Wayne IL for about 8 hours or more. Here, a new crew arrives but they are locked out due to the wind chill tempatures freezing the doors. Eventually, the train will take off. UP GP40-2 5245 and UP GP38-2 531 leads the UP L-PW14 local through Wayne IL.
UP Belvidere Sub
Wayne IL.
1/25/14
118 Pictures in 2018 #68: Connected
If you look to the left, you can see the other chain disappearing in tho the sunlight.
(Left to right) Chris Clabough, lock operator and equipment mechanic, and Ralph Rhodes, lock operator trainee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, place a water pump as crews remove water on Aug 12, 2011 at from Barkley Lock. (USACE photo by Mark Rankin)
This lock was filled in with the canal culverted to the other side of Greenhill Road. It is currently being excavated to be made into a car park for the almost renovated lock keeper’s cottage to the left.
Taken at the Hennepin Canal, lock #17 (if I remember correctly)
Another interesting photographic challenge to see if I could make this not terribly exciting bridge a bit more interesting. View On White
From IL DNR Page:
The Hennepin Canal is more than just a fun place. It played a very important role in the history of the United States and to commerce and industry. In fact, the entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Thoughts of constructing a canal that connected the Illinois and Mississippi River date back to 1834. But financial problems in the state held back many public works projects. Pressure for a transportation shortcut that was cheaper than rail continued though, and Congress authorized preliminary surveys on the project in 1871. Construction finally got under way in 1892 and the first boat went through in 1907, reducing the distance from Chicago to Rock Island by 419 miles. There was a problem, however. As this canal was under construction, the Corps of Engineers was widening the locks on both the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. With lock chambers twenty and forty feet narrower than the rivers it connected, the canal was obsolete before the Marion made her initial voyage.
By the 1930s it was used primarily for recreational traffic. The Hennepin and its sister canal, the I & M, tied the Illinois, Des Plaines and Mississippi river systems into a transportation network connecting Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. The I & M was completed nearly 60 years earlier and helped make Chicago one of the nation's greatest cities. The Hennepin Canal, which at one time was known as the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, was open to boat traffic until 1951. There was no cost to use the canal. Ice made from the canal's frozen waters was sold during the winters to help pay the canal's maintenance costs.
The Hennepin was the first American canal built of concrete without stone cut facings. Although the Hennepin enjoyed limited success as a waterway, engineering innovations used in its construction were a bonus to the construction industry. Some of the innovations pioneered on the Hennepin Canal were probably used on the Panama Canal. Both used concrete lock chambers and both used a Feeder canal from a man made lake to water the canals because both needed water to flow ‘uphill.’
There are 33 locks on the canal. Thirty-two are still visible. The first one, on the Illinois River, has been under water since the 1930's. Fourteen of the locks had Marshall gates, which are unique to the Hennepin, and are raised and lowered on a horizontal axis, much like a rural mailbox. Five of the locks have been restored to working condition, although they are not used. One of these is a Marshall Gate lock. All of the gates from the remaining locks have been replaced with concrete walls, creating a series of waterfalls.
The Rochdale Canal crosses the Oldham Road at lock 50. Oldham Road is to the right, while the canal drops to pass under the road.