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You just dig a trench and fill it with seawater, then float it over. The train just needs to go next to it to pull the boat.
by mgiampapa 3y ago
You just dig a trench and fill it with seawater, then float it over. The train just needs to go next to it to pull the boat.
- lcuff 3y agoThe comment I responded to did say 'carry'. 'Just dig a trench and fill it with seawater'. Starts to sound an awful lot like a canal to me ... and ... why do you need a train to pull this?
- bluGill 3y agoCanales origionly used mules to pull the boats. that today would avoid the props on ship digging up the bottom. Those land based trains can also be electric for environmental savings.
- wongarsu 3y agoIn the Panama Canal ships are pulled by locomotives on rails next to the canal. They have to do that because the canal is too narrow for ships to steer under their own power
- jcranmer 3y agoThat's only true for the locks.
- coryrc 3y agoThat's the joke
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