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Dick's Towboat Gallery
Featuring Towboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers Richard E.(Dick) Dunbar, Proprietor (Click here for important Copyright notice!) ( Away on vacation again, back around June 21, 2009! )
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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 have 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. Of course, things are a little slow on our part of the Mississippi in the winter. Towboats don't navigate well when the river is frozen over. So I don't get a lot of towboat photography done in the winter. But some of my contributors do, so the activity continues. The towboats start pushing through here again some time in March, so my own activity should pick up after that. 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. 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 2008 and various 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 Kenny Allain John Ambrose Joe Angert John Barnhill Capt. Les Barrois Mickie Bello Charles Bernhardt Chris Brewer "Towboat Joe" Brown Ted F. Brunt Josh Burgess Steve Campion Mark Carl Capt. Jerry Carlton Rex Carlyle Heather Cecil Joe Cieslak Dan Dalrymple Greg Dickerson Frank Ellis Ray Falk Capt. Bob Felch William Gaudet Justin Gerard Capt. Tom Gerry Kim Gleason Andy Grant Chris Graves Michael Gremillion Barry Griffith Don Grot Harley Hall Mark Haury Robby Hess Dave Hicks Mark Hovis Steve Huffman Kris Jacobi Stan Johnson Tony Johnston Zane Johnston V. J. Kennedy Jessica Kirby Richard L. Kurtz Matt Lagarde George Lange Todd Lehman Marv Market Ed Mars Arloe Mayne Shawn Martinez Karen Meder Darrin Melvin Jim Mihalek Capt. Tim Miller Matt Morrow Henry Mullen Chuck Myers Mark Nichols John R. Miller Dan Owen Sonny Pierce Tim & Lori Powell Michael Quinton Rudi Rabe George Reichhardt Ron Richardson Bill Pilger Don Rodriguez Joshua Romero Eric Schade Joe Schneid Howard Simpson Capt. Billy Smith Dale Smith J. Cecil Smith Danny Stafford Capt. Laurence Suire Nels Swanson Ed Tremewan Paul Welsh Edward Wilhite Rob Williams Chad Wray Jeff Yates "Old River Bill" Zumwalt Many thanks for your contributions. They are greatly appreciated. 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. 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! 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!
Modeling Group Towboat Group Tugboat Group
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