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Subject:	Re: Interesting idea for boats/towns/train layouts: Falkirk Wheel
Newsgroups:	lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town
Followup-To:	lugnet.town
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:25:10 GMT
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In lugnet.boats, Robert Fries wrote:

The Union Canal in Scotland has a pretty interesting lock mechanism for moving boats between two levels, called the 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

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		Re: Interesting idea for boats/towns/train layouts: Falkirk Wheel
(...) Insane, but very very cool. (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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		Interesting idea for boats/towns/train layouts: Falkirk Wheel
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: (URL) Boats move between the top and bottom levels via the wheel. More images are (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)

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