Looking NNE from upriver end of unfinished wharf extension (near foot of 1st St.).
<p>Towboats "Susan C. McBride" (doc. # 241557) and "Robert McBride" (doc. # 256814; partly visible) upbound with cement barge .
</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio River">Ohio River</a> mile 604.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>.
January 1988.
File # 88a012.
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Twin screw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_(boat)" class="extiw" title="w:Pusher (boat)">towboat</a> "Susan C. McBride" (148x31, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbanks-Morse" class="extiw" title="w:Fairbanks-Morse">F-M diesels</a>, repowered 1971, 3400 hp) built 1942 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/calumet.htm">Calumet Ship Yard &amp; Dry Dock Co.</a>, Chicago, Illinois.
Originally <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.towboatgallery.com/Susan_C_McBride-0241557.php?pic=10&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=">"Tri-State"</a>, owned by Ashland Oil &amp; Refining Co.
Had first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_radar" class="extiw" title="w:Marine radar">radar</a> on inland rivers, 1946.
Sold 1960 to Reliable Towing Co., renamed "Reliable".
Sold 1965 to Tennessee Towing, Inc., Memphis, TN.
Sold 1968 to Elk Towing Co., Point Pleasant, WV, and renamed "Diane Bosworth" later that year.
Sold 1970 to M/G Transport Services, Inc., Cincinnati, OH.
Transferred later in 1970 to Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, IN.
Sold 1971 to McBride Towing Co., Inc., Harrods Creek, KY, and renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/14229750287/">"Susan C. McBride"</a>.
Documentation expired 2012.
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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
CC BY-SA 2.0
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/8972002807/">88a012: Susan C. McBride and Robert McBride upbound with cement barge</a>