Big Chute Marine Railway
The Big Chute Marine Railway is the number 44 descent structure on the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario , Canada . It overcomes a vertical drop of approximately 17.70 meters or 57 feet over a distance of 228 meters or 748 feet.
Originally planned and already started as a normal lock , it fell victim to the austerity measures and the financial shortage of the First World War and was opened as an inclined elevator with dry conveyance in 1917 as a temporary measure .
The descent structure No. 43, which opened as the Swift Rapids Marine Railway in 1919, had a similar fate .
In the 1960s, it was planned to end the provisional state and the inclined plane of Rapid Falls by a conventional lock to replace what was happening in 1965, while the Big Chute Marine Railway wanted to keep as dry conveyor system to stop the spread of sea lamprey as a fish parasite from one To prevent part of the waterway in the other.
In 1978 the new, larger system was put into operation, whereby the small old Big Chute Marine Railway is practically still functional, but was actually in action in 2003.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 53 ′ 5 " N , 79 ° 40 ′ 29" W.