| I guess this is getting way off the thread but I worked on towboats for an independent engineering company and installed and serviced xenon searchlights. I worked the area of the Mississippi close to Alton, Ill. where the Missouri emptied into the Mississippi. I never caught a boat going up the Missouri but I worked from the St. Paul headwaters to the Gulf of the Mississippi. I'll post some pictures I took while I was working the boats in the Chit Chat area. I also worked the Tennessee River, Monongehela, and some I don't remember.
__________________  “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |