New Gates Being Placed in Position

Here is a link to an article along with a couple of pictures of one of the new gates being placed in its respective recess...

http://gcaptain.com/gate-installation-begins-for-expanded-panama-canal/

Here is the latest web cam shot of the gate in the recess, it is on the right hand side of the pic, already in the recess...

The concrete work is only about 80% on the locks.

A short video of the first of the gates being jockeyed into position. Should have mentioned it yesterday, but this gate is located in the upper level of the Agua Clara Locks (Atlantic side locks).

Bill,

Great stuff, thanks for posting.

Thank you for the links.

New gates being positioned -- very exciting!

Thanks for the links & info :) !! We will be doing a partial transit on Jan 31, 2015.

We saw three of the new gates along the shore on our partial transit last month. They are huge! It was a great cruise and itinerary.

We saw three of the new gates along the shore on our partial transit last month. They are huge! It was a great cruise and itinerary.

Yes they certainly are huge, weighing over 3000 tons each! By comparison one leaf of the heaviest of the present locks miter gates "only" weighs in a little over 700 tons.

We saw three of the new gates along the shore on our partial transit last month. They are huge! It was a great cruise and itinerary.

Will be great to see the construction of the locks during our cruise which adds to the excitement of this cruise.

Fairly short video of the first of the gates being installed on the new Pacific Locks. This gate is the upper most gate, in another article they termed the position as "lock head one." In other words it will be the gate that separates the lock from Gaillard Cut (Gatun Lake).