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Dick's Towboat Gallery
Featuring Towboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
Richard E.(Dick) Dunbar, Proprietor
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BACKGROUND

This web site is dedicated to the display of pictures of and information about towboats on the rivers of the United States. For pictures of and information about riverboats other than towboats or tugboats, check out Dick's Riverboat Gallery. One of the many joys of living and boating on the Mississippi River is the opportunity to observe the passage of large towboats plying their way up and downstream, engaging in commerce, carrying huge loads of grain, coal, petroleum products and other goods. Over the years I accumulated a collection of pictures of towboats as they passed by our home. The original purpose of this web site was to display those pictures, mostly taken by me in various locations around St. Paul, MN, primarily near mile 819.4 on the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), about twenty miles downstream of St. Paul. However, a funny thing happened along the way. Thanks to the efforts of many fine folks who have contributed pictures, information and assistance (see CREDITS below), this web site can no longer be considered as primarily devoted to one area. It now contains pictures taken in locations up and down the Mississippi, Ohio, and other rivers. Some of the earlier photographs were taken long ago, while the latest ones were taken in the last few weeks or days. At any given time, some of them may have been taken just yesterday.

If you have good photographs you have taken of towboats on the Mississippi, or the Ohio, or any of the Western Rivers, and you would like them displayed here, send them to me via an e-mail attachment, and I will post them along with the proper credits. I may adjust color balance, brightness, contrast, etc., and/or crop them as I feel necessary, although I'll try to disturb your work as little as possible. Photos are typically displayed here at 640 x 480 resolution, but I prefer starting with higher resolution photos so that there is more leeway for cropping. My e-mail is on broadband, so any resolution that's not too painful for you to upload is OK.
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CREDITS

Where known, the size and power of the towboat, documentation number, and name change history are shown along with the photograph(s). Most of this and other information shown was derived from the 2010 and earlier editions of the "INLAND RIVER RECORD", edited by Dan Owen. Copies are available through "The Waterways Journal".

Others who have contributed pictures and/or information to the Towboat Gallery:

    Rex Agnew   Andrew Albertson   Bill Alden   Kenny Allain
    John Ambrose   Joe Angert   Jim Armstrong   John Banicki
    John Barnhill   Capt. Les Barrois   Dave Bauerbach   Mickie Bello
    Charles Bernhardt   Rusty Besanson   Mike Bevins   Roger Blanchard
    Mike Blitgen   Kevin Box   Chris Brewer   David Bridges
    Chris Brown   'Towboat Joe' Brown   Ted F. Brunt   Josh Burgess
    Steve Campion   Mark L. Carl   Mark Carl   Capt. Jerry Carlton
    Rex Carlyle   Heather Cecil   William P. Cheshire   Joe Cieslak
    Dan Dalrymple   John E. Dawson   Greg Dickerson   Shawn Dickerson
    Chris Dunn   Barbara Agnew Ellis   Frank Ellis   John L. Evans
    Ray Falk   Capt. Bob Felch   R. J. Floyd   William Gaudet
    Justin Gerard   Capt. Tom Gerry   Kim Gleason   Andy Grant
    Chris Graves   Michael Gremillion   Barry Griffith   Don Grot
    Harley Hall   Mark Haury   Rick Helmerdinger   Michael Herschler
    Robby Hess   Dave Hicks   John Holbrook   Mark Hovis
    Steve Huffman   David Jackson   Kris Jacobi   Woody Jasperson
    Eric M. Johnson   Stan Johnson   Tom Johnson   Tony Johnston
    Zane Johnston   Erek Kahl   V. J. Kennedy   Jessica Kirby
    Ladonna_Knoth   Mark Kuntz   Richard L. Kurtz   Matt Lagarde
    Blaine Landry   George Lange   Tim Laughlin   Todd Lehman
    Brent Maletic   Marv Market   Shawn Martinez   Arloe Mayne
    Karen Meder   Darrin Melvin   Ed Mars   Jim Mihalek
    Joe Miller   John R. Miller   Capt. Tim Miller   Karl Morley
    Matt Morrow   Benjamin Mudd   Henry Mullen   Chuck Myers
    C. R. Neale   Will Nelson   Mark Nichols   Bill Otten
    Dan Owen   Sonny Pierce   Bill Pilger   Tim & Lori Powell
    Michael Quinton   Rudi Rabe   George Reichhardt   Ron Richardson
    Don Rodriguez   Joshua Romero   Dan Ross   Jim & Adam Ross
    Jeremy Runde   Eric Schade   Joe Schneid   Brian Sedlvy
    Chris Shelby   Howard Simpson   Capt. Billy Smith   Dale Smith
    J. Cecil Smith   Danny Stafford   Ron Stricklen   George Stringham
    Shane Strouse   Capt. Laurence Suire   Nels Swanson   Ed Tremewan
    Howard C. Vidrine   Tom Waller   Paul Welsh   Timothy Wilkerson
    Edward Wilhite   Rob Williams   Scott Wood   Chad Wray
    Jeff Yates   Patrick Yough   'Old River Bill' Zumwalt
Many thanks for your contributions. They are greatly appreciated.
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UNIDENTIFIED TOWBOATS

A few of the towboats in this collection are unidentified, either because the name was not visible due to the angle of the photograph, or it was unreadable. These are displayed under the heading Unidentified Towboats. If you recognize one of these unidentified vessels, please send me an e-mail, using the link near the bottom of the page. I would love to have all the boats in the gallery identified.
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SITE NAVIGATION

Click on the main image above or on any towboat name in the menus on the left, and you will be taken to a page containing the photo(s) of that towboat. Click on any image in the thumbnails list below the menus on any page, and a larger version of that image will replace the main image on the current page. Clicking on one of the arrows next to the thumbnails list on any page will rotate the list up or down. Clicking on the 'NEXT' or 'PREV' legends above or below the main image on any page will cause a larger version of the next or previous image in the thumbnails list to replace the current image. A few pages have access to full resolution versions of some images. In these cases, clicking on the main image or the explanatory legend below it will display the full resolution image, which may be quite large. Enjoy!
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BOAT & RIVER LINKS

Here are links to other interesting Towboat and/or River related sites. If you like my Towboat Gallery, I'm sure you will like these sites as well. Enjoy!



Shove It With A Towboat

The Wheelhouse Report

Information for mariners
on America's waterways

Dan Owen's Boat Photo Museum


W. Va. Towboat Photos

Indiana & Illinois Waterways

The Riverbend Towatcher's Logbook
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Steamtug.org
Steam Tug Baltimore
Restoration Project

The Stern Watch

B & M Midstream Barge Services


Old River Bill's
R/C Model Towboats

Tug Pegasus
Preservation
Project

Towboat Joe
Information, photos, models, and plans
of inland river work boats
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Blue Heron's Nest

Hobbies & Crafts

TOWBOATER.COM
An online magazine dedicated to
the lifestyle and challenges of
professional towboating.

The National Mississippi
River Museum


Little River Books

Big River Magazine

The Waterways Journal
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RiverBills.com
Your River News & Entertainment Source for the
Mississippi, Illinois & Missouri Rivers
in the St. Louis Area

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Except where otherwise credited,
all photographs on this site are
Copyright Richard E. Dunbar 1991-2010
Any and all other rights reserved.

All contributed photographs are
Copyright Credited Contributor 1991-2010
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Photographs from this site are not to be downloaded for
publication of any kind without first obtaining permission from
Dick's Towboat Gallery and the Credited Contributor.
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