Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — UNUSUAL USE FOR CULVERT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNUSUAL USE FOR CULVERT

Structure Near Lake Superior Has Been Utilized as a Most Effective Boathouse.

A large culvert through which Water passes under a railroad track that skirts the shore of Lake Superior is used by the owner of a fair-sized motorboat as a boathouse. The level of the culvert’s floor is a few inches above the lake and rollers have been laid at intervals from the edge of the

water back into the passageway along which the boat is drawn. This unusual shelter furnishes ample protection in the severest storms. Ordinarily the amount of water which flows through the culvert is of very little inconvenience. The roof is composed of old iron rails to which the boat U chained when it is brought in from the lake, so that it will not be svept away in case the .flow is greatly increased by a storm.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.

A Railway Culvert on the Shore of Lake Superior That Is Used as a Shelter for a Motorboat.