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in this section: Yesterday's technology? These mules --- electric locomotives used to pull ships through the Panama Canal locks --- are parked near the Gatun Locks and appear not to be long for this world. Meanwhile, the plans for the larger third set of locks don't include mules. Those would use tugboats that go into the locks with the ships. However, the final engineering for the new locks is not yet done and three-step locks system that raises and lowers ships more than 80 feet with water flowing in from water saving basins has never been attempted before. Places with much lower and smaller locks with the basins have had safety problems from the cross-ways and diagonal currents within those lock chambers and the Panama Canal would have aggravated versions of these woes under the design sketched during the canal expansion referendum campaign. So might the new locks have to be redrawn to include mules after all? In any case the old locks will still be in use after the new ones are completed, so there will still be a need for mules. Photo by Eric Jackson
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