Comments on: European Barge Lifting

By: parikka

parikka — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:14:56 +0000

In Russia they do it rather big - please check out the river lift at Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam, located on the Yenisey river within 30 km upstream from Krasnoyarsk:

http://www.e-river.ru/gallery/view.php?id=1413&p=2

Unfortunately the Gmaps is quite low resolution there so one cannot really see it from satellite pictures.

By: ajho

ajho — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:45:52 +0000

Foxton Locks was, of course, also the site of one of the first experiments in the Saint-Louis-Arzviller style ’sideways on’ inclined planes. The remains of it show up surprisingly well in GE. There is a useful diagram here.

By: Mrb

Mrb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:43:02 +0000

Fantastic bit of engineering the Falkirk Wheel, makes me proud to be British. Unfortunately things like Gongoozling don’t. Only joking I don’t want to upset any Gongoozlers out there, in fact GGSS has made Gongoozlers of all of us.

Any way you don’t really appreciate the Falkirk wheel until you see it working so Youtube to the rescue.

By: Don Chesnut

Don Chesnut — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:37:51 +0000

The view of the “Plan Incline” in France doesn’t include the great luge run in the basin to the southwest just below the big building (which is the visitors center for the Plan Incline). Hopefully there’ll be a new shot soon; I’d love to see that thing from altitude!

Don

By: djidji

djidji — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:39:54 +0000

Near Bezier / France:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:45:25 +0000

Haha, I was imaging how scary it would be to go up that incline in a boat, until I saw the wikipedia article!