Towboat "Barbara" downbound with a coal tow.
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The single screw towboat "Barbara" (doc. # 563110 / Length 102 feet / Width 26 feet / GM 16-645E6 diesel, 1800 hp.) was built in 1975 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/stlouisboats.htm">St. Louis Ship</a>, St. Louis, Missouri, for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://crounse.com/">Crounse Corp.</a>, Paducah, Kentucky.
Originally named "Rachel", the boat was renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.towboatgallery.com/Barbara-0563110.php?pic=3&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=">"Barbara"</a> in 1982.
(All Crounse boats have female names.)
Still operating in 2018
</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio River">Ohio River</a> mile 438.
near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster,_Bracken_County,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Foster, Bracken County, Kentucky">Foster, Kentucky</a> (in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken_County,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Bracken County, Kentucky">Bracken County</a>).
Mar. 1988.
file # 88c154.
</p><p>35 mm Kodachrome.
Plustek OpticFilm 7600i.
Siverfast 8.
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Picture Window 6.
<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
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