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This is how the Russians do it:
http://ueba.net/hosted pages/Moving-a-Boat-20060813
A nice bit of engineering. ;-)


Thats pretty cool!
I don't know if its still there, but 40 yrs ago they had something
similar to this tho on a much smaller scale at the Dam that flowed from
Lake Drummond into the feeder canal off the Dismal Swamp in Va.
It was a small wood cradle on a railway using an old reversible 3/4"
drill for power. UD





You have to wonder what the "toll charge" is for this service. It looks
like 30-32 containers on the barge. Perhaps this method of carrying them
past the dam is cheaper than unloading the barge, trucking those containers
to the other side, then reloading them onto another barge.

Impressive. Where is this? It looks as if it has been used a lot and
I wonder about the economics of this vs a lock system.

Amazing. This is Yenisei river, in the middle of Siberia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yenisei_basin_7.png).
The dam is for the Krasnoyarsk hydro powerplant, over 100 meters high
(about half the Hoover dam), surrounded by granite cliffs,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoy..._Power_Station.

I guess building and operating locks there would be much more expensive.
One company operates the entire river (the fleet AND the lift). Looks
like the barges were specifically made to fit the lift.

As far as I can tell from their website, the charge is approximately
$30-50 per metric ton per 1000 (that's THOUSAND) miles, lift included.
There are major mining and timber businesses there, but no other major
means of transportation.
Few more photos at their site,
http://www.e-river.ru/gallery/view.php?id=1413&p=2