Looking WNW from Roebling Suspension Bridge.
<p>Towboat "Steel Clipper" (doc. # 507944) downbound, approaching Clay Wade Bailey Bridge (US Highway 42).
</p><p>Ohio River mile 471.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nov. 1987.
File # 87k047.
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"Steel Clipper" was built in 1967 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/dravoboats.htm">Dravo Corp.</a> at Neville Island, Pa.
It was owned by Ohio Barge Line, Dravosburg, Pa., until 1984, when it was sold to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Barge_Company" class="extiw" title="w:Ingram Barge Company">Ingram Barge Co.</a>, Nashville, Tenn.
In 1996, the boat was renamed "Thomas R. Vorholt".
In 2010, it was renamed "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.towboatgallery.com/James_Paul_Ayers-0507944.php?pic=12&amp;tnc=9&amp;mnu=1">James Paul Ayers</a>".
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Wade_Bailey_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:Clay Wade Bailey Bridge">Clay Wade Bailey Bridge</a> (named after a Kentucky newspaperman who covered the Capitol beat) was completed in 1974.
It was built on the piers of the original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%26O_Railroad_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:C&amp;O Railroad Bridge">Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Bridge</a>, which was completed in 1888 and demolished in 1968.
Note that the present-day C&amp;O Railroad Bridge (completed in 1929) was built on the same piers, so two separate superstructures share one set of piers. The C&amp;O Bridge is just downstream from the Bailey Bridge. The C&amp;O Bridge has the taller superstructure of the two.
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35 mm Kodachrome.
Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
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
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