[“Neatorama”]This Canal System Runs Boats on Train Tracksneatorama(Photo: Henryk Borawski)The 51-mile Elblag Canal stretches across 6 lakes from the Polish cities of Elblag to Ostróda. One 6-mile section includes an elevation difference of 326 feet, which is more than conventional locks could adjust for when the canal was built in the middle of the Nineteenth Century.So Georg Jacob Steenke, the engineer in charge of the project, developed a novel solution. To cross the steep section of the canal, boats slip onto converted railroad cars, which are then pulled acr…[hahatitle=”This is the only system like it in the world.”] #CanalSystem
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:01:33 +0000