vrangfoss

That's quite a canal!

Title should be Vrangfos Lock, not Vuangfos. Nowadays Vrangfoss (litt. "difficult waterfall").

Also, the canal is nowadays called "Telemarkskanalen", i. e. Telemark Canal. It goes all the way from Dalen to the sea (Skagerrak), with a side-arm stretching north to Notodden. Just great for canoeing and camping!

Vrangfoss is the correct name. It is also a regrettable fact that nowadays tourist agencies use the collective name Telemarkskanalen for two canalizing projects with different history, but linked by the Norsjø lake: Bandakkanalen (or Norsjø-Bandakkanalen) and Skien-Norsjøkanalen Vrangfoss is the highest waterfall on the Bandak canal / Bandakkanalen Central area of the picture is position 6573658 N, 511558 E.. UTMV32 General axis of view about straight NW , probably shot from a small elevation beside the old tourist pathway between Eidsfoss and Vrangfoss: Kongens utsikt (The King's view, don't actually know wether the union king of Norway and Sweden actually ever stood there, but he visited the canal a year after the opening ceremony) at position 6573512 N, 511702 E. UTMV32

This looks like a very simple but elegant canal. It doesn't look like it's cluttering the area like most seem to do.

wonderful.

Not really Bandak's Canal, but the Bandak Canal i.e. the Canal leading from the ocean up to lake Bandak. Bandak is not a person, but a lake. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandak. The picture looks like it may have been taken directly above the Vrangfoss locks if I am not mistaken.

Yes, I agree that it resembles Trangen (position UTM32V 6573922N 51137E) in the canalized river from Nomevatn above Vrangefoss. However, there is not such a pathway with an uphill there. Today there is an owergrown path where I suppose there was a short railway from the quarry to the gate construction works downfalls. So short time afterwards also this bank would have been less overgrown. And there is also a small cliff in the river at Trangen, but it is not connected with the gates with this screen wall from upstream, what is the case here. And this screen comes from Vrangfoss. So this is the downstram inlet to Vrangfoss gatelocks (Vrangfoss' underkanal med skjermen) at position UTM 32V 6573542N 512167 E. The pathway is also today used by many canal tourists for a short walk between Eidsfoss and Vrangfoss while the canal boat is being sluiced through. The pathway was later reconstructed and diverted from the original route from the top of the uphill on towards Vrangfoss in the late 1950ies and early 60'ies when hydroelectric stations were constructed in both waterfalls. The old tourist pathway turned right from the top of the hill and crossed Yttingen or Eiebekken brook on a wooden bridge (Børtebrua) that fell down in the 1970'ies but was later reconstructed. The local shop (Børtebua) at Vrangfoss was also situated on the other side of this brook, but must have been out of business since the late 1940'ies. On the other side of the pathway from the shop, close to the river was Kongens utsikt, from where the next picture in this series (with a view of the Vrangfoss locks) is taken.

I'm really liking the colorized look with all of these library of congress shots, good stuff