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2. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Wikipedia

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   Records indicate that in the 1879, a single steamboat could go 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles per hour (5.2 km/h) loaded downstream, 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles per hour (7.2 km/h) unloaded going upstream, and took 5 to 7 minutes to lock through whether going upstream or downstream (respectively) and used about a ton of coal per day for operation.

3. Left Coast Lifter - Wikipedia

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   The total cost was approximately US$50,000,000 (equivalent to $71,010,000 in 2023). [ 5 ] Before Left Coast Lifter was fitted out with the crane for bridge construction, it was deemed to violate the Jones Act because, since the integral crane would be built and installed in China, it could not be used to transport goods by water between U.S. ports.

4. Pontoon bridge - Wikipedia

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   A pontoon bridge is a collection of specialized, shallow draft boats or floats, connected together to cross a river or canal, with a track or deck attached on top. The water buoyancy supports the boats, limiting the maximum load to the total and point buoyancy of the pontoons or boats. [2]

5. Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge - Wikipedia

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   History. Opened. July 2, 1940. Rebuilt. September 12, 1993. Location. The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge in the Seattle metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Washington. It is one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges that carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Mercer Island ...

6. Queen Emma Bridge - Wikipedia

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   167 m (548 feet) Width. 9.80 m (32 feet) History. Opened. 1888, restored 1939 and 2006. Location. The Queen Emma Bridge (Dutch: Koningin Emmabrug; Papiamento: Brùg di Ponton, Brùg di Punda) is a pontoon bridge across St. Anna Bay on Curaçao island in the Dutch Caribbean. It connects the Punda and Otrobanda quarters of the capital city ...

7. 72-year-old woman and 2 children dead after pontoon capsizes ...

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   Updated July 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM. Coconino County Sheriff's Office. Two 4-year-old children and a 72-year-old woman died after the pontoon they were on overturned last week on Lake Powell in ...