{"id":592,"date":"2007-07-03T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2007-07-03T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:29:58","slug":"thorold-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Thorold, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Double Rolling Lift Bridges over the Flight Locks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/030707.jpg\" title=\"Flight Locks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/030707s.jpg\" title=\"Flight Locks\" alt=\"030707s.jpg\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most interesting spots along the Welland Canal, the section called <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.137125,-79.192355&amp;spn=0.003355,0.004951&amp;t=k&amp;z=18&amp;om=1\">&#8220;The Flight Locks&#8221;<\/a>.  Three consecutive locks drain into each other raising or lowing ships about 200 feet in total.  There are 8 locks along the canal that by-passes Niagara Falls allowing ships to travel between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>Right at the end of the flight locks is a very busy double track main line, and this crosses the twin locks on two rolling lift bridges, with a small section of track in the centre of the two locks.  On a busy day there is lots of ship and train traffic and is very interesting to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Of course in the last few years lots of fences have shown up making this once great transportation watching spot less and less accessible.  Except for this spot.  Don&#8217;t tell anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Do you see the guy on the ship waving?<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Rolling Lift Bridges over the Flight Locks This is one of the most interesting spots along the Welland Canal, the section called &#8220;The Flight Locks&#8221;. Three consecutive locks drain into each other raising or lowing ships about 200 feet in total. There are 8 locks along the canal that by-passes Niagara Falls allowing ships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hdr-images","category-picture-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}