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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: BigBob] #7878638
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Originally Posted by BigBob
All those boats tied up rail to rail was a recipe for disaster. In 1904 one ship caught fire and wiped out 100's of boats, some of the remains can still be seen during periods of very low water.


I recall reading about that. Boiler explosions and fires were a common occurrence.

Every Alabama kid of my generation knows of the Eliza Battle and how she rises up out of the Tombigbee on cold winter nights still trying to make it to Mobile.

I believe that the Sultana disaster still remains the worst US maritime disaster.


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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879026
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Cruised my this yesterday. Think where where my Mt.Vernon ?

Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879059
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Cruised my this yesterday. Think where where my Mt.Vernon ?


That's the LST that's on display in Evansville.

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That's the Rockport power plant and the 2 spires to the right are the bridge over the Ohio. Been over that bridge many times. You were in my territory Wolf.

Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879116
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Thanks for all the pics Wolfie, keep them coming when you can. I love seeing the scenery and comments on it. I miss the pics River Birch used to post on here.

Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879147
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Not too much goin on today everyone. O ment to tell y'all made my first lock the other night and over done two more since . The first mate and captain seemed kinda impressed.... Well honestly I think their just happy I know how to speak on the radio and I do key up just to go " yeah uuuuuughhhh I think your ummmm 10.....no no 8 wide and uuuummmm": laugh but yeah nothing too special see today so here's some pics of outlet galley. It's pretty nice
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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879195
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That's a nice galley. Looks very clean .How does the cooking work? Do you cook your own meals? I assume there is not cook on board? Any wolf equipment grin ? Looks like a very nice tug you are on.

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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879377
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So where up river a few hours from mound city just waiting for the lock. Fist time we've had a line. This trip. At least while I was on shift. Anyhow pretty cool being around all these pilings . Lots of wild life seems to lien to congregate around these locks.
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Some cobra chickens as me and my friends call em laugh
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Whole lot of these little gar too blush I've been seeing a lot of them closer and in the locks. Pretty little critters how they just lazily like cruise around at the top. The mate said I could have been fishing right now if I had a rod actually so I'm a little bummed about that smirk never caught a gar before
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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Slick Pan] #7879379
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Originally Posted by Slick Pan
That's a nice galley. Looks very clean .How does the cooking work? Do you cook your own meals? I assume there is not cook on board? Any wolf equipment grin ? Looks like a very nice tug you are on.

Well the engineer likes to cook lunch most days. He's a cool guy but really anyone can cook. And if you don't want whatever's been cook up you can make yourself whatever. As long as you don't make a big racket ,or leave a hug mess or your doing too much on watch no one really cares smile

Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: K52] #7879382
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Originally Posted by K52
Thanks for all the pics Wolfie, keep them coming when you can. I love seeing the scenery and comments on it. I miss the pics River Birch used to post on here.

River Birch posted some amazing pictures. And keep yours coming, Wolfdog!

Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879434
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Great fishing below a lock and dam. Either schools of bait coming over or through the dam or fish running upriver stacking up at the dam has the cats and stripe on belly filling mode.

Spent many a night tossing out jugs below Lock 17, Bankhead Lock and Dam. Funny how cold it can get on a summer night with that spray mist coming off the dam.

But when that horn sounds you better cut and run because the boil that rises when the chamber drains will swamp you. Learned that no anchor rope is ever tied off hard and fast, ever. Cleated but ready to be tossed.

Oh and life jackets, the lock master has binos and a phone.


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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Osagian] #7879489
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Originally Posted by Osagian
1850s was the high point for steamboat traffic on the Mississippi River. Then came the war and then came the railroads which were the demise of the steamboats.
History says that at one time there were 178 steamboats counted on the levee there at St. Louis during this period. Mostly on the Missouri side but some on the Illinois side. Off loading freight, on loading freight, waiting for a departure date, having their ship looked after by chandlers or artisans or .... whatever.
The levee ran approximately 6 miles up and down river from a point close to where the Arch is now. The Arch area was the center of it all. I'd pay good money to go back in time and walk that levee. So much history there. Hawkens gun store would have been in operation then too. Frenchman, Indians, immigrant Germans, river people, westward pioneers, 49ers, military people...........It would have been a colorful place.





Some enterprising souls dug up one of those steamboats that sunk, and made a museum with all the cargo.




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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Marty B] #7879495
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Originally Posted by Marty B
Originally Posted by Osagian
1850s was the high point for steamboat traffic on the Mississippi River. Then came the war and then came the railroads which were the demise of the steamboats.
History says that at one time there were 178 steamboats counted on the levee there at St. Louis during this period. Mostly on the Missouri side but some on the Illinois side. Off loading freight, on loading freight, waiting for a departure date, having their ship looked after by chandlers or artisans or .... whatever.
The levee ran approximately 6 miles up and down river from a point close to where the Arch is now. The Arch area was the center of it all. I'd pay good money to go back in time and walk that levee. So much history there. Hawkens gun store would have been in operation then too. Frenchman, Indians, immigrant Germans, river people, westward pioneers, 49ers, military people...........It would have been a colorful place.





Some enterprising souls dug up one of those steamboats that sunk, and made a museum with all the cargo.




https://www.1856.com/


Out of a cornfield some distance from where the river is today! I like looking at aerial photos and you can see where rivers have twisted and turn and changed course all over those bottomlands.

Those old river pilots really had to know how to read the river as it could change on you with each season.


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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879512
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I've always thought this was one of the prettiest river views of my home state.

The white bluffs aka Ecor Blanc of Demopolis on the Tombigbee.

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BTW, they were 50' taller before the locks and dam raised the river. I would've loved to have seen that.


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So we've been tied up most of the day. Got a fleet boat to help us re arrange tow so where sitting 4 wide four long now and where just creeping on down the river
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One of the anchors bargers we where tied up so had a bunch of bird life having around it. Swallows....well what I think are swallow I'm pretty sure where nested under the rake and inside of it there where a bunch of old stacked up damaged lids for the dry cargo barges and a flock of pigeons made it their little roost. Honestly I have to say it's pretty amazing how critters adapted and nature it's self has made little micro ecosystems out of all our junk and places we never really look.
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But yeah other then that been pretty laxed day. Engineer had to do a oil change sor he started lunch and I tended to it for the most part. Some of they guys where complaining about beef roast vs pork roast but idk tasted good to
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How where heading south somewhere now
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Re: Some neat sites out here [Re: Wolfdog91] #7879957
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That Land between the Lakes area you're about to go through is some pretty country.


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Hmm, just realized that if you're on the Ohio you won't be going LBL unless headed to Nashville.

If going to Paducah check out the bridge at Brookport. Two lane steel truss with a grate deck. Fun to cross if you got nervous Nellie's in the car, lol.


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Like a freind once said " life's a garden dude, just gotta dig it sometimes"
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Great pics Wolfdog.


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