Looking NW from above McAlpine Locks .
<p>Towboat "Belzoni" (doc. # 506973) pulling first cut of upbound tow out of 600-foot lock.
Ohio River mile 607.
Louisville, Kentucky.
Oct. 1987.
File # 87j236.
</p><p>"Belzoni" was built in 1967 by Hill City Boat Builders, Vicksburg, Miss., for Vicksburg Towing Co. I'm guessing the boat was named for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belzoni,_Mississippi" class="extiw" title="w:Belzoni, Mississippi">Belzoni, Mississippi</a>, which in turn was named for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Belzoni" class="extiw" title="w:Giovanni Battista Belzoni">Italian explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni</a>. At time of this photo, the boat was owned by Missouri River Barge Lines, St. Louis; later in 1987 transferred to Valley Transportation, St. Louis; sold in 1992 to American Valley Line, Jeffersonville, Ind.
</p><p>The Belzoni is now (2012) working in South America under the name <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/39977094@N07/7780804268/">Cavalier VIII</a>.
</p><p>35 mm Kodachrome slide.
scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
</p>
edited with Picture Window 4
<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/8101290738/">87j236: Belzoni at McAlpine Locks</a>