Looking down from Clark Bridge.
<p>Towboats "Emma V" (doc. # 266269, at left) and "Robin" (doc. # unknown, at right) downbound.
Ohio River mile 604.
Louisville, Kentucky.
Dec. 1987.
File # 87l011.
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The boat on the left, originally named <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.towboatgallery.com/Marlie_Price-0266269.php?pic=9&amp;tnc=5&amp;mnu=1">"J. W. Rose"</a>, was built in 1953 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/stlouisboats.htm">St. Louis Shipbuilding &amp; Steel Co.</a>, St. Louis, Mo.
It was rebuilt in 1961 with a retractable pilothouse by Material Service Corp., Lockport, Illinois.
[This explains the short stacks, which allowed the boat to clear low bridges when the pilothouse was lowered. By the time of this photo, the pilothouse was no longer retractable.]
The boat was renamed "Kristina H" in 1964, "Emma V" in 1966, "Crystal King" in 1988, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.towboatgallery.com/Marlie_Price-0266269.php?pic=7&amp;tnc=5&amp;mnu=1">"Midwest"</a> (retractable again) in 1993.
By 2003, the boat was out of service.
In 2007, the boat was repowered and rebuilt as a conventional (non-retractable) towboat by Amherst Industries, Henderson, W.Va.
In 2007, the boat was renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grifsgraphics/4118552157/">"Marlie Price"</a>.
As of early 2013, the boat was owned by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amherstmadison.com/">Amherst Madison</a> (formerly Madison Coal and Supply), Charleston, W. Va.
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35 mm Kodachrome 
Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8 (couldn't get natural colors in these scans)
Picture Window 6.
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JPEG quality 95.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
CC BY-SA 2.0
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/8560603052/">87l011: Emma V and Robin at Clark Bridge</a>