. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . II Wll;l R CRANE. Mlk \FI.»iKI--. UPPEK LOCKS, GATUN. I < face ). 518. DOWN THE COAST TO PANAMA 319 next being twenty-eight feet, the locomotives sur-mount this by means of a piece of track curved ina vertical plane, something like a segment of aswitchback railway. As a further protection against the danger ofa lock gate being rammed, each gate is protectedby a very heavy chain swung across in front ofit. In addition to all this, as an extra safeguard,the end gates of each lock are in duplicate, 30that in the unlikely event of one gate
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . II Wll;l R CRANE. Mlk \FI.»iKI--. UPPEK LOCKS, GATUN. I < face ). 518. DOWN THE COAST TO PANAMA 319 next being twenty-eight feet, the locomotives sur-mount this by means of a piece of track curved ina vertical plane, something like a segment of aswitchback railway. As a further protection against the danger ofa lock gate being rammed, each gate is protectedby a very heavy chain swung across in front ofit. In addition to all this, as an extra safeguard,the end gates of each lock are in duplicate, 30that in the unlikely event of one gate being rammedby a ship, there is still another beyond to preventthe water from escaping. If, by some scarcely conceivable catastrophe, allthe gates of one of the upper locks at (ratlin shouldbe damaged, the rush of water from the lake throughthe lock would be a tragedy of such appallingmagnitude that it has been deemed advisable toguard again8t even such an unlikely event as is done by means of a huge contrivancewhich can be swung out across the entrance tothe lock, and from
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