Aban/CB&Q Bridge and Guard Lock on Hennepin Feeder Canal in Rock Falls, IL

Bridge: (no Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

Lock: (Satellite)

Hennepin Canal overview

Normally, I would skip yet anther mundane steel-girder deck bridge. But the canal intreged me. It is the feeder canal for the Hennepin Canal.

Dave Kuntz posted
Another ghost for you - an abandoned MILW [actually, CB&Q] bridge spanning a mostly abandoned canal near Rock Falls, IL
Mike Breski shared

 

Friends of the Hennepin Canal posted

Did you know?

There are 33 locks on the canal. Thirty-two are still visible. Fourteen of the locks had Marshall gates, which are unique to the Hennepin, and are raised and lowered on a horizontal axis, much like a rural mailbox. Five of the locks have been restored to working condition, although they are not used. (From the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.)

Pictured below is the Guard Lock, Sluice Gates and Guard House at the Hennepin Canal in Rock Falls, Illinois in 1907. (Image from University of Wisconsin Madison online libraries.)

Logan Fahr: All 33 locks are visible.

Gary Wagle: Logan Fahr Actually, Lock #1, in Bureau on the Illinois River, no longer exists...washed out by flooding and neglect. Most all of the other 32 locks exist, in part.

Logan Fahr commented on Gary's comment
oh its there 

 

John Vize posted
Birds Eye view of the guard lock from the water tower looking northeast, Sept 28, 1909. Note the volume of water flowing into the feeder canal in this photo compared to now.

John Vize posted
The Guard Lock on the Feeder at Rock Falls in the early days of the canal. Photo from my collection.
Lloyd Scott Hardin shared

John Fize posted
Feeder guard lock from N.W. Sept 25, 1909.@

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