Post by BuckSkin on Sept 14, 2021 21:41:02 GMT
Note > Keep an eye on this thread, as I intend to add more photos of this trip as I get them ready.
Note >> I have since fixed this photo so you can click it for a larger view.
Towboat - Robin Shelton
Photo taken from underneath the 2009 US Hwy 62 bridge, on the
West side of the lock channel (pictured in next post/photo)
Looking North/downstream.
On the right/East is the Lock and the Tennessee River
Navigation Channel.
On the left/West is the Dam and Spillway.
The bridge, with a West-bound 379 Peterbilt on the deck, is the Twin Interstate 24 Luther Draffen 1974 Tennessee River Bridge.
Although it appears to be a single bridge, there are actually two of them, East-bound and West-bound.
Beyond the bridge, the granddaddy of all towboats, with another tow that appears to be all coal, waits his turn in the lock.
Beating it's way up the swift current of the Tennessee River,
heading into the Navigation Channel and Lock, is Tennessee
Valley Towing's 95'-long towboat, Robin Shelton (MMSI
368038040, Call Sign: WDK2700), pushing a twelve barge tow,
three abreast and four deep.
Width of Tow: 105' --- the lock chamber is 110' wide
Length of Tow: 800' + Towboat = 895' --- the lock chamber is 600' long; this tow will have to be split and locked in two sections, requiring a second towboat, on the lake side, to pull the first section out into the lake.
The identifiable barges in this tow consist of:
From Left to Right - Front to Back
1. Ingram Barge #IB 993(1980) USCG:620182
2. Unidentifiable #_NO 75109
3. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 182(1997) USCG:1061148
4. American Commercial Barge Line #AEP 7332(2009) USCG:1228553
5. Unidentifiable
6. Unidentifiable #TB 1075
7. Unidentifiable #B__ 960B
8. Axiall #AXL 106(2016) USCG:1272864
9. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 705(2007) USCG:1200130
10. American Commercial Barge Line #MEM 2108(1998) USCG:1058052
11. Unidentifiable #_MBO 412
12. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 703(2007) USCG:1200131
I never could understand why they call these "towboats" and the consist of barges a "tow".
At an early age, I learned that to tow something was to pull it along behind you, not push it ahead.
The same reasoning can be applied to the misnamed "tug boats" ; I have never seen a tugboat tug anything; they push and they shove.
Kentucky Lock and Dam
Tennessee River Mile 22.4 (from the Ohio River)
Illinois Central Railroad Milepost 26.0 (from Paducah)
Livingston County, Kentucky
Land Between the Lakes Roadtrip
Wednesday_21-July-2021
Note >> I have since fixed this photo so you can click it for a larger view.
Towboat - Robin Shelton
Photo taken from underneath the 2009 US Hwy 62 bridge, on the
West side of the lock channel (pictured in next post/photo)
Looking North/downstream.
On the right/East is the Lock and the Tennessee River
Navigation Channel.
On the left/West is the Dam and Spillway.
The bridge, with a West-bound 379 Peterbilt on the deck, is the Twin Interstate 24 Luther Draffen 1974 Tennessee River Bridge.
Although it appears to be a single bridge, there are actually two of them, East-bound and West-bound.
Beyond the bridge, the granddaddy of all towboats, with another tow that appears to be all coal, waits his turn in the lock.
Beating it's way up the swift current of the Tennessee River,
heading into the Navigation Channel and Lock, is Tennessee
Valley Towing's 95'-long towboat, Robin Shelton (MMSI
368038040, Call Sign: WDK2700), pushing a twelve barge tow,
three abreast and four deep.
Width of Tow: 105' --- the lock chamber is 110' wide
Length of Tow: 800' + Towboat = 895' --- the lock chamber is 600' long; this tow will have to be split and locked in two sections, requiring a second towboat, on the lake side, to pull the first section out into the lake.
The identifiable barges in this tow consist of:
From Left to Right - Front to Back
1. Ingram Barge #IB 993(1980) USCG:620182
2. Unidentifiable #_NO 75109
3. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 182(1997) USCG:1061148
4. American Commercial Barge Line #AEP 7332(2009) USCG:1228553
5. Unidentifiable
6. Unidentifiable #TB 1075
7. Unidentifiable #B__ 960B
8. Axiall #AXL 106(2016) USCG:1272864
9. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 705(2007) USCG:1200130
10. American Commercial Barge Line #MEM 2108(1998) USCG:1058052
11. Unidentifiable #_MBO 412
12. American Commercial Barge Line #CHEM 703(2007) USCG:1200131
I never could understand why they call these "towboats" and the consist of barges a "tow".
At an early age, I learned that to tow something was to pull it along behind you, not push it ahead.
The same reasoning can be applied to the misnamed "tug boats" ; I have never seen a tugboat tug anything; they push and they shove.
Kentucky Lock and Dam
Tennessee River Mile 22.4 (from the Ohio River)
Illinois Central Railroad Milepost 26.0 (from Paducah)
Livingston County, Kentucky
Land Between the Lakes Roadtrip
Wednesday_21-July-2021
