Big Chute Marine Railway
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Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in the township of Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles o
Big Chute Marine Railway
View from a vessel exiting the submerged carriage
Patent slip
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A patent slip or marine railway is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and a mechanism to haul the ship, attached to the cra
Big Chute Marine Railway
…Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in the township of Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual…
A patent slip at Arbroath, Scotland, as seen from the water's surface.
A rail-mounted cradle for carrying a ship.