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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.
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Logan Fahr commented on Gary's comment oh its there |
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