To get to Pike Island locks from sixth boro by water, you need to either “do a Water Horse” or travel thousands of miles around Florida, thru Gulf of Mexico, go up the Mississippi as far as Cairo, etc. Or drive a car west for about six hours, which is what I did. By the way, W. L. H. Moon’s “water horse” was a C-Dory that left from the Elizabeth Marina right across from Howland Hook. Below, watch the mast with radar sweep and searchlight.
It’s Brenda Rose, and yes she did!
And having risen, the throttles gets pushed forward. She sounds like an accelerating locomotive,
pushknees jamming against the barge,
she moves her load just barely through the floodgate structure
and upriver toward Pittsburgh.
Any ideas what the sections of cylindrical vessel might be? And Brenda Rose . . . her homeport and other vitals?
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May 30, 2008 at 8:06 am
Mage Bailey
I’m just charmed by yesterday’s tugs and today’s Brennda Rose. Thank you.
May 30, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Bill Kelleher
I sure wouldn’t want to be that captain. That has to be hard on the nerves not being able to see were you are going. ( even if there is sombody on the bow with a radio.
Bill Kelleher
46′ Motoryacht
Toledo Ohio
May 30, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Jim
Brenda Rose hails from Paducah, KY and is owned by Triple K Transportation LLC also of Paducah. Built in 1940, she is 94.5 ft long, 24.1 ft beam, and 205GT/139 net tons. To me those steel cylinders look to be for a coal-fired power plant, perhaps part of the transition from the boiler into the stack but that is just a guess.
May 31, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Jim
Checked with a friend in the power business. John said “They look like rotating air preheater sections. Could be going to the Cheswick station or one of the Orion plants on the Allegheny.”
May 31, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Kennebec Captain
“She sounds like an accelerating locomotive” – I’d bet a nickel she has a 16 cylinder EMD in the engine room.
June 2, 2008 at 3:06 am
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