Hey, you're working on a pushboat*? Cool! I met a few people who worked on them when we lived on the Mississippi in Quincy Illinois a few years ago. We loved to sit by the river and overlooking the lockes and watch them. Those boats are awesome how they manuver around all those barges! (I was blown away seeing what - 12 or more barges all strapped together being floated along by a pushboat!) Must be an interesting job. Take lots of pictures up & down the Mississippi!
There was a flood a decade ago & the Missouri side of the river flooded way way inland...there is a single barge that came to rest about 1 1/2 miles inland across from Quincy -what a HUGE, HUGE thing it is! Unbelievable, if you've never seen one!
Did I read Phred's barge info right - your boat can push up to 40 barges at once?!? Wowzers!Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
*the locals call them "pushboats"
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