Looking NW from Shawnee Park.
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Towboat "Transporter" (doc. # 569721) upbound with with cement barge "KC183".
Gallagher Station power station can be seen on Indiana bank.
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Twin-screw towboat "Transporter" (doc. # 569721, 90x32, GM 12-567AC diesels, 2400 hp) was built 1975 by Greenville (Mississippi) Shipbuilding Corp..
Originally named "Jay", the boat was renamed "Rose Marie Walden" in 1978 when bought and first put into service by Helena (Arkansas) Marine Service.
In 1983, the boat was renamed "Jo Beth Janoush" after being leased to Janoush Towing, Rosedale, Mississippi.
In 1987, the boat was sold to McBride Towing Co., Harrods Creek, Kentucky, and renamed "Transporter".
Still operating in 2017.
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The cement barge "KC183" was (and may still be) owned by the Kosmos Cement Co. (now part of Cemex), 15301 Dixie Highway, Louisville, in the Kosmosdale neighborhood. .
The barge featured a large cylindrical tank which carried powdered cement.
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Gallagher Station is four-unit coal-burning power plant which began operating in 1958. .
When all 4 units were operating, the plant produced 560 megawatts.
In 2012, two units were retired and the remaining two units upgraded with baghouses which remove particulates from the combustion gases, so output is now (2015) only 280 megawatts..
Coal barges can be seen near the plant, some already empty and others yet to be unloaded. .
The coal is scooped up with a clamshell bucket suspended from a truss which extends out over the water..
It is then dumped into a hopper and carried by conveyor belt to a storage pile..
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The road in the foreground is now (2015) part of the Riverwalk.
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Ohio River mile 610.
Louisville, Kentucky.
3-Mar-1992.
file # 92c009.

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Looking SSE from across from Goose Island dike (near foot of Stansifer Ave.).
Conrail (later L&I) Bridge and downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in distance.
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Ohio River mile 606.
Clarksville, Indiana.
16-Mar-1992.
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file # 92c020.
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Looking NW from near foot of Floyd St.
Coast Guard buoy tender "CGC Chippewa" (doc. # WLR 75404) with crane barge "CGB-76" nosed into bank.
Towboat "Pere Marquette" (doc. # 571622) downbound at right.

Signs on Clark Bridge piers read:
"Danger: Dam 3000 ft. ahead"
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"Restricted: No pleasure or fishing craft below bridge".

Louisville Falls Fountain (operational from 1988 to 1998) can be seen in left distance downstream from Clark Bridge.
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The twin-screw towboat "Chippewa" (doc. # WLR 75404)
75 x 22 feet, Cat D353 diesels, 660 hp
This boat was built in 1965 by Maxon Construction Co., Tell City, Indiana.
It is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and, together with the crane barge "CGB-76", serves as a river buoy tender maintaining navigational aids (buoys, lights and daymarks) on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

CGC stands for "Coast Guard Cutter" and CGB stands for "Coast Guard Barge".
The Coast Guard designation "WLR" in the documentation number means Coast Guard vessel (W), tender (L) and river (R).

At time of this photo (Oct. 1992), the "Chippewa" operated out of Owensboro, Kentucky, but more recently has had a home port near Buchanan, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River.
It was still in service as of 2020.
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The twin-screw towboat "Pere Marquette" (110 x 34 feet, GM diesels, 3050 hp) was built in 1975 by Dravo for Inland Oil and Transport Co.
Originally named "Lady Frances," the boat did not enter service until 1978, when it was acquired by Marquette Transportation Co., Cassville, Wisconsin, and renamed "Pere Marquette."
In 1988 the boat was sold to National Marine and at time of this photo (Oct. 1992) was leased to Capital Towing Corp., Houston, Texas. In 1998 the boat was sold to American Commercial Barge Line, Jeffersonville, Indiana, and in 2006 renamed "Joseph M. Hamilton".
Also see several more views of the "Joseph M. Hamilton".
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Ohio River mile 604.
Louisville, Kentucky.
28-Oct-1992.
file # 92j028.

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