Swift Rapids Marine Railway
The Swift Rapids Marine Railway was originally planned as a normal lock as a descent structure No. 43 in the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario , Canada and has already started, but fell victim to the austerity measures and the financial tightness of the First World War and was then used as an inclined lift with dry conveyance in the Opened in 1919 as a temporary arrangement.
The descent structure No. 44, which opened as the Big Chute Marine Railway in 1917, had a similar fate .
In the 1960s, plans were made to end the temporary condition and replace the Rapid Falls inclined elevator with a conventional lock , which happened in 1965 while maintaining the Big Chute Marine Railway as a dry conveyor system and replacing it with a larger one to cope with the expansion of the To prevent sea lamprey as a fish parasite from one part of the waterway to the other.
Since the Swift Rapids Marine Railway stood exactly where the lock it replaced is now, nothing is left of the old dry conveyor system.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 51'26.6 " N , 79 ° 32'25.3" W.