"trainfinder22"
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>Is there any explabe of railroad cars being carried on canal boats?
Is there any dictionary that defines "explabe"?
In British Columbia, which is very mountainous, building railways was
expensive. So on some long, narrow lakes with mountains rising
steeply on either side, the railway came down the valley to a wharf at
the lakehad, where rail cars were shunted on to barges. The barges
where then navigated to a rail wharf at the other end of the lake,
from which they continued their journey overland.
The railways in question have mostly been abandoned now.
Incidentally, a canal was once built between two of the lakes. It had
one lock. No boats came to use it for years after it was built. Then
the great day came, and a boat arrived. It was bigger than the lock.
So they dismantled the lock and hauled the boat up the resulting
slope. So sorry, no more canal. But the nearby settlement is still
called "Canal Flats".
When I lived in Vancouver, there was still rail freight between the
mainland and Vancouver Island, and Canadian Pacific regularly ran a
self-propelled railcar barge (with tracks on its deck on to which the
cars were shunted) between Vancouver and Victoria harbours. The last
bit of the Canadian National line on the Island has now been closed,
and the former Canadian Pacific line there now carries only tourists,
so the barge is no longer seen.
Adrian
Adrian Stott
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