photo backlog: Lockport Locks
(2nd photo backlog post)
If you need to take your great-grandmother on a tourist adventure and she's not up to the Falls, you should take her on the Lockport Locks & Erie Canal Cruises.
Other than a pair of great-grandkids, A and I were the youngest people on the boat. The lock and lift bridge engineering is pretty neat but other than that the cruise was a snooze. Luckily I had acquired the tickets for free. Every time I sat down I got queasy so I took about 400 shots of the 2-hour cruise. The light was gorgeous that day.
Map of the Erie Canal
The cruise boat.
A full lock opening up to meet the level of the downstream canal.
Under the Big Bridge - at one point it was the widest bridge in the world On the top, it's hard to tell that you're even on a bridge.
Captain/owner
Another Big Bridge shot
It's 26 miles to the Black Rock Lock.
Notification lights on the lockhouse
Old warehouse, two lift bridges, a barge
Lift bridges are cool. One guy operates them both - he drives the quarter mile between them many times a day to lift & lower them for boat traffic. You'd think they'd provide something more energy-efficient (segway? 4-wheeler? scooter? skateboard?) than a truck.
Looking at waiting traffic from under the lift bridge
Duck.
The great-grandkids on the boat.
If you need to take your great-grandmother on a tourist adventure and she's not up to the Falls, you should take her on the Lockport Locks & Erie Canal Cruises.
Other than a pair of great-grandkids, A and I were the youngest people on the boat. The lock and lift bridge engineering is pretty neat but other than that the cruise was a snooze. Luckily I had acquired the tickets for free. Every time I sat down I got queasy so I took about 400 shots of the 2-hour cruise. The light was gorgeous that day.Map of the Erie Canal
The cruise boat.
A full lock opening up to meet the level of the downstream canal.
Under the Big Bridge - at one point it was the widest bridge in the world
On the top, it's hard to tell that you're even on a bridge.Captain/owner
Another Big Bridge shot
It's 26 miles to the Black Rock Lock.
Notification lights on the lockhouse
Old warehouse, two lift bridges, a barge
Lift bridges are cool. One guy operates them both - he drives the quarter mile between them many times a day to lift & lower them for boat traffic. You'd think they'd provide something more energy-efficient (segway? 4-wheeler? scooter? skateboard?) than a truck.
Looking at waiting traffic from under the lift bridge
Duck.
The great-grandkids on the boat.
