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Panama Canal
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![]() Approaching the Pan-American Highway "Bridge of the Americas " |
![]() Miaflores double lift locks |
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Mules - electric
cogwheel trains that pull the ships through the locks and
keep the ships centered with their steel tending cables |
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Typical lock gates | ||||
![]() Pedro Miguel single lift locks from Miaflores Lake |
![]() Entering Gatun Lake and the Gaillard Cut from Pedro Miguel |
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![]() Transiting the Gaillard Cut and passing Gold Mountain and the continental divide |
![]() Waterfront prison near Gamboa |
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Canal maintenance equipment near Gamboa. To get a sense of size, there is a man standing on the boom behind the dredge's cutter head. | ||||
![]() Gamboa and the Chagres River (source of water for the locks) |
![]() Gatun Lake |
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![]() Gatun Dam |
![]() Gatun triple lift locks |
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![]() Entering the upper Gatun lock |
![]() Equalizing upper and middle Gatun locks |
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![]() Opening gates into middle Gatun lock |
![]() Releasing water into the ocean from the lower Gatun lock |
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![]() Typical clearance for a panamax ship |
![]() Mules working a panamax ship into the lower Gatun lock |
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