Panama Canal
Miraflores Locks 1963. Towing locomotives, first used in 1914, were still in operation when I started working for the company. I operated these locomotives until they were replace two years later with more powerful machines that could attach 2 cables to a ship instead of one.
Below: Miraflores Locks using 1914 towing locomotives. Photo is of Bob Webb.
Below: Miraflores Locks using 1965 towing locomotives.
Gatun Locks and Gaillard Cut. Ships are raised 85 feet above sea level.
Dry chamber during Miraflores Locks overhaul.
Reinstalling the 700 ton gates, using the Hercules crane, after the chambers have been refilled..
Bob preparing for dive at the Panama Canal in 1968.
