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Subject:	Interesting idea for boats/towns/train layouts: Falkirk Wheel
Newsgroups:	lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town
Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:45:28 GMT
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The Union Canal in Scotland has a pretty interesting lock mechanism for moving boats between two levels, called the Falkirk Wheel.

Here’s an animation to show it off:

Boats move between the top and bottom levels via the wheel.

More images are available here, here, here, and here.

The official website has some more info.

Note: I didn’t take these photos - I can only attribute them to “Rosco” from another discussion board.

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		Re: Interesting idea for boats/towns/train layouts: Falkirk Wheel
(...) That's insane! The website also mentioned that to get boats to the wheel they also had to build the aqueduct and a tunnel. A canal tunnel. Wow. Rick Clark (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)

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