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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (14165)9/30/2012 9:01:17 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24231
 
<<The standard barge is 195 feet long,
35 feet wide, and can be used to a 9-foot draft.
Its capacity is 1500 tons. Some of the newer barges today
are 290 feet by 50 feet, double the capacity of earlier barges.>.


So how many trucks? A lot of work to figure that one out for me. And I would need to know how big a truck is-lol.



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (14165)10/1/2012 4:14:53 AM
From: Metacomet  Respond to of 24231
 
They are generally held to a width no more than the locks they will see on most rivers


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