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To: sandintoes who wrote (37880)3/18/2002 5:40:05 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
<<What a ride! I wonder how someone captured that on film?>>

I bet the bridge tender took those. The Captain forgot to give him the bottle of whisky the last trip through.

They use that size tow on the Illinois to assemble the barges into packages for the big boys to push. The prop wash on those little tows makes about a 6' wake and the big tows pushing 18 barges barely ripple the water.