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15/02/2011 8:54 am
Greetings From New Orleans ,
Just a few River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
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15/02/2011 9:22 am
More River Pictures !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
More River Picturs !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
Ted Davisson;24653 wrote: Greetings From New Orleans ,
Just a few River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
15/02/2011 1:19 pm
Thanks, Ted. I like the third one...is it St. Elmo looking down at Grandview Reach?
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15/02/2011 6:17 pm
Bob , Yes It Is !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
Bob , yes it is and your right on the money ! You don't miss much !
Here is a few more pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
Bob Reynolds;24655 wrote: Thanks, Ted. I like the third one...is it St. Elmo looking down at Grandview Reach?
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17/02/2011 12:27 am
A Few More River Pictures !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
A few more River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
Ted Davisson;24659 wrote: Greetings From New Orleans ,
Bob , yes it is and your right on the money ! You don't miss much !
Here is a few more pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
20/02/2011 3:04 am
We enjoy every one, Cap'n.
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20/02/2011 4:42 pm
Thanks Roger ! But No Titles !
Greetings From New Orelans ,
Thanks Roger , glad you enjoy the pictures and hopfully as much as I enjoy taking them !
Here are a few more and PLEASE , but THANK YOU , no titles ! I love the work but NOT the titles !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted ( not captain ) Davisson
Roger Prichard;24703 wrote: We enjoy every one, Cap'n.
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19/03/2011 2:35 am
Just A Few More River Pictures !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
Just a few more River Pictures !
Hope You Enjoy !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
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19/03/2011 2:52 am
Just A Few More River Pictures !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
You Guessed It , A Few More River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
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19/03/2011 4:02 am
You Guessed It !
Greetings From New Orleans ,
You Guessed It ! A Few More River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
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19/03/2011 4:41 am
Just A Few More !
Greetings From New Orleans !
Just A Few More !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
Ted Davisson;25029 wrote: Greetings From New Orleans ,
You Guessed It ! A Few More River Pictures !
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
19/03/2011 10:52 am
I forget -- Which former DPC towboat was that, in the first photo? Guadalcanal? I remember it sank a couple of years ago. Doesn't look like they are going to do anything with it.
19/03/2011 12:16 pm
Steve: The LUNGA POINT. It was used for years as a steam generating plant for a barge cleaning operation at Baton Rouge, but languished for a couple of years before hurricane Gustav at Banta Fleet, opposite Plaquemine, LA.
20/03/2011 2:11 am
Ted, for the education of those of us without a clue, in the 3rd photo above, whatever is the crewman doing? He appears to be walking a nice clean line (with regular loops?) across a desert of, what, grain? sand? Mysteries, all, to the uninitiated.
20/03/2011 2:40 am
Roger, I'll answer for Ted -- I am pretty sure I'm right, but am ready to be corrected:
Due to the tremendous amount of grain exported by the U.S., there is not enough wharf space or elevator space to do all the transfers from barges to ships. (The barges bring the grain down from midwestern farms to be transloaded onto ships for export.)
So, the industry has devised mid-stream operations for this...ships are anchored just off the channel and a rig is brought alongside for transferring cargo. Barges are then brought alongside, and the transfer takes place. What we are seeing here is a ship being loaded at one of these operations. The crew member is walking across teh loaded cargo of grain, either wheat or corn. This appears to be on a ship, but I am not 100% sure about that. He is walking the line to either the unloading rig or over to a barge.
Most people have absolutely no clue as to how much stuff is moved on our rivers. By the time you get to Baton Rouge, the amount and variety of cargoes is staggering. It only gets to be moreso the further down river you go.
21/03/2011 12:35 pm
Thanks, Bob. Knew some lighterage takes place from inbound ships, didn't know a similar transfer happens on exports.
Any idea what's the purpose of the lines with the loops in them every 10 feet or so? (Oddly similar to bedsheets tied together in an old prison-break movie!)