Erie Canal Descending Lock Through At Lockport NY USA - Part 1 of 2

The Lockview V locking through Erie Canal locks 35 and 34 at Lockport NY USA.

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See:
America's Heritage: The Erie Canal (1957)
http://youtu.be/6_f7S4BojGI

The Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises - The Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises. -
http://www.llecc.com/
http://www.lockportlocks.com/

Schedule http://www.lockportlocks.com/cruisesch.html

Historical pictures of the Lockport locks can be found on http://www.eriecanal.org/Lockport-1.html

And Historical pictures of The Erie Canal or "Clinton's Big Ditch" at http://www.eriecanal.org/index.html

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[JetMechMA]

I'm from Lockport Illinois and we have a pretty impressive lock there. It is on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal. There is also a set of old locks on the old Illinois and Michigan canal. The interesting thing about the new locks is that they have two vertical drop gates at the upstream side which drop into the floor of the lock chamber. This is because when they built them in the 1930's there wasn't enough concrete thickness for miter gates at that end.