Along with the Peterborough and the Kirkfield Liftlocks, another oddity of moving from one level to another on the Trent-Severn Waterway is the railway lift called The Big Chute. In order for us to study how this contraption worked, we spent an afternoon and overnight on a Parks Canada dock and watched boats get transferred from the Trent River down to the Severn River. Early the next morning, Summertime, with us aboard, was strapped into the partly submerged railroad car, balanced with straps, trundled on tracks out of the water, across a roadway, rolled down a hillside amd placed “nice as you please” into the waters of the Severn River. The entire operation, an engineering marvel for sure, took less than fifteen minutes!
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| The marine railway awaiting a days work |
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| The railway submerged awaiting our arrival |
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| Slings awaiting |
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| Summertime sitting high and dry on her keel |
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| The Admiral on watch |
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| Almost back into the water |
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On the water again!
Created by Darcy O.Campbell |
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