Big Chute Marine Railway

The Big Chute Marine Railway is the descent Buildings Ranked # 44 in the Trent -Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It overcomes a height difference of about 17.70 meters or 57 feet over a distance of 228 meters or 748 feet.

Originally planned as a normal lock and already started, she fell down the austerity measures and the financial shortage of the First World War to the victim and was inaugurated as inclined elevator with dry promotion in 1917 as a temporary makeshift.

A similar fate had the descent Building No. 43, which was opened as the Swift Rapids Marine Railway in 1919.

In the 1960s there were plans to end the temporary condition and replacing the diagonal lift of RapidFalls by a conventional lock, which in 1965 was during one wanted to keep the Big Chute Marine Railway as a dry handling system to control the spread of sea lamprey as a fish parasite from one part to prevent the water path to the other.

So the new, larger facility was put into operation in 1978, with the Big Chute Marine Railway little old practice is still functional, but was actually in 2003, the last time in action.

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