Road Photos 2023 E Tangent

Yesterday’s post sent me in search of a post I thought I’d done five years and a month ago when I visited another noteworthy lock on the Trent-Severn Waterway.  It turns out, however, that I got busy and never posted the photos I took of T-S W lock 21.  Today I make amends then.

From the angle in the photo below, this looks much like a lock chamber from the perspective of a vessel about to descend, right?

But here’s the view a few moment later, after the lock appears to be “drained,” except it doesn’t look right.  

Here’s the view from below.  This is the Peterborough Lift Lock, and it’s an entire caisson filled with water and usually a boat that rises and descends.  There are two chambers, balanced such that each counterbalances the other to raise or lower boats transiting the T-S Waterway. 

All photos taken in May 2018, WVD.

For more on the T-S, click here.  For the only other reference to the T-S W on this blog, click here.  previous