Lovely drone work, thank you so much for a great look at the lock where I am learning so much and the STL chatters and mods are so friendly and helpful to us newbies.
Awesome video of the lock and dam area. I really liked seeing the old lock area, that I didn't even knew existed until the cam on the old bridge went into operation. Would have liked to seen just a little more on the Illinois side of how people accessed the dam area to cross it, in a trolley during severe flooding, as has happened a few times in the past. Thank You.
Thanks!. The IL side was getting later in the day. The human was getting hungry and drone batteries were running out. lol. Im planning another trip to the area and Ill try and get a little more of the Illinois side.
Awesome footage. Much better sights and perspectives. Never could see how far back the railroad bridge went on other videos. Keokuk has more population than I thought
Lock and Dam 19 at Keokuk Iowa an Consists of a 1200 Feet Chamber and 110 feet wide and will hold 15 barges in full length and not including the River line Boat and is Real tight fit for the ship boat Captain to Navigate as entering the Lock Chamber on the lower side 9f the pool of the Lock Chamber.
Thanks for coming. Thanks to Judd and all the STL cam ops for linking it as well. Im gad people enjoy the overviews that the fixed location of the STL camera cant provide. That said, they do a great job on the streams and I watch them fairly regularly as well.
I'm a regular viewer of the static, live feed webcam. I've known that the lower lock approach is a real bitch for towboat captains. The aerial view of that tow having to manuever to bring the bow around to allow it to enter the lock chamber. It's also great to see the up river approach along with the river beyond. That must be one heavy duty drone to get to such an altitude. The view from up there on such a clear day really provides a great view of this entire region for miles. A well done and appreciated video.
Thanks. I'm glad it helps everyone get more of the "big picture" of what all is involved to get those tows through the lock. That was my intent. The drone is actually one of the smallest on the market but it does pretty well for video quality. This is not shot in 4K but it is capable of doing so, which I'm going to try in the future. If time and weather work out Im hoping to do some more video along the river and plan to revisit Keokuk since its not all that far from home.
The tonnage that boat is pushing is amazing. Ok so the upper lock door goes down into the ground?? I have always worked on the Intercoastal waterway and lower Mississippi and have never encountered that kind of lock door. It actually looks cool. The buoy tender made the video.
@@bw6378 I'm a tow boat captain and the furthest north I have been is St Louis. Made the Tombigby route a few times but 90% of my experience is on the lower Mississippi and the bayou s of southern Louisiana.
Well maybe you will get a chance to come farther north some day. I'm the opposite, in that I have seen very little of the lower Mississippi. I did see some river traffic on a trip to Louisiana several years ago but thats it. Maybe some day I will get back down to your neck of the woods.
@@bw6378 we will be waiting. The lower Mississippi can get rather dangerous during high water though so even we have to be very careful. If you get a chance to even do some trip piloting down here please come, but be aware that not every company have the correct hp for the conditions the river can send our way.
No, one barge carries the equivalent of many trains. If you search around the web, there are tables showing how much tows carry compared to trucks and trains. According to these comparisons, moving the sort of goods they carry is the most efficient means of transportation currently available. Rail and trucks are faster, but in the shear tonnage each barges moves, neither trucks or trains can come anywhere near.
@@michaelgarrity6090 The barge business is heavily subsidized by the federal government - specifically, the Corp of Engineers. Barging is about the only reason it exists. When taking into account transportation cost efficiencies in re: rails and trucking vs. river mode, I suspect the ‘savings’ by barging rapidly disappears once the subsidy is subtracted. For 2022 the COE expects to employ 37,000 people and expend nearly $8,000,000,000. There’s no way the nation’s rails receive similar subsidies; they are private sector enterprises whose customers pay all the freight. Taxpayers pay a heavy price for subsidizing the river transportation industry, so for now I stand by my observation that rail and trucking are more cost efficient.
I stand corrected Frank. I surprisingly have never come across this information before, but you are correct, the barge industry is heavily subsidized. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of press coverage on the topic though, at least online that has been archived. I did find one very good article from Forbes dating back to around 2013 or so. That author did a good job laying out the position you share with him regarding the subsidizing of the towboat industry . That said, while I tend to be usually against things like government largess especially to enrich corporations, I admit their interests and mine converge in this case, because running the rivers in powerboats is one of the things I love most in life. In fact, this summer I am going to build my own little version of a "shantyboat" to do a several year long tour of most of or at least major sections of the Ohio River and it's motorboat navigable tributaries, the Tenneesee, Cumberland and Upper Mississippi Rivers. It's my bucket list "thing." At least in my lifetime, I don't want to see such subsidies of the towboat industry cone to an end, because if they do end, that means the USACE will begin a phase out of the locks and dams and that effectively means the end of assured and safe navigable waters for recreational purposes will also come to an end on many of the rivers. It certainly will be the case for my home river, the Ohio. I doubt though, given the current situation with shipping of all sorts and the supply chain issues, the end of such subsidies is not likely going to happen any time soon.
@@michaelgarrity6090 True enough Michael. There certainly are national benefits received by us all from river shipments of commodities, especially coal, quarried stone, fertilizer and grains. We all seem to derive a common good from whatever cost efficiencies (including the effects of federal subsidy exist) to not justify ending or crimping them. I still though, being a child of a key link city of the Mississippi river system, wonder how those 15 barge rows chugging 3 or 4 mph upriver can be more effective than rail. Seems when I watched the terminal loadings along the St. Louis riverfront that these installations followed the same practices filling tank cars and docked barges, so how can something move upriver, say to Minneapolis or even down to the key export link at Port of New Orleans, comparably. I’d expect a barge would take a week or more to get downriver (?), while a 120 car train could make it in 24-36 hours (?). Maybe speed is not of the essence in the commodity transportation business since most of them don’t expire or have finite lives.
Hello there Mississippi can you send some water down the tube to lake Mead lake Powell and all the other lakes here in Nevada California we would really appreciate it your kind hospitality. And you're late is truly beautiful please make us just the same as it ours as it used to be thank you
Most of the covered barges carry Corn or Soy beans, and possibly fertilizer that needs to be kept dry. They also put lots of other things in barges such as gravel, coal, scrap iron etc.
The drone cant record audio so that has to be captured separately...which is obviously a challenge. I put in what I could, I love the sound of EMD's myself.
We brought our boat down the Miss from Mpls to Cairo, Ill. Fun to see the scenery again!!!
EXCELLENT footage of lock 19!! Thanks, b w!
That's a crazy turn into that lock. Swing bridge bonus! Nice work.
Thank you very much GG. Im am a fan of your channel and videos I think I have watched almost all....certainly all the hopping ones. :)
Lovely drone work, thank you so much for a great look at the lock where I am learning so much and the STL chatters and mods are so friendly and helpful to us newbies.
Many thanks!
Great video! 👍 Didn't realise the curve was so tight at both ends. Respect for the skill required to manoeuvre.
Excellent video. I watch the STL a lot and your videos are a fresh new look at the area! Nice going!
Awesome, thank you!
Very cool video. The aerial view allows for seeing some interesting details of the Lock and Dam 19 area. Thanks.
Thanks 👍
This is great! It clears up a lot of questions I've had about the geography of the area.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video. Love it thank you for sharing.
Awesome video of the lock and dam area. I really liked seeing the old lock area, that I didn't even knew existed until the cam on the old bridge went into operation. Would have liked to seen just a little more on the Illinois side of how people accessed the dam area to cross it, in a trolley during severe flooding, as has happened a few times in the past. Thank You.
Thanks!. The IL side was getting later in the day. The human was getting hungry and drone batteries were running out. lol.
Im planning another trip to the area and Ill try and get a little more of the Illinois side.
Very very good!! Thank you
Awesome footage. Much better sights and perspectives. Never could see how far back the railroad bridge went on other videos. Keokuk has more population than I thought
Thanks!
GOOOD ''PUSHER'' PILOTING. THANX 4 THE VID
The music was just right for the mood too. Good work!
Love this! Looking forward to more vids like this.
My favorite fishing area. Paradise on earth
That was cool. Thanks for the different look around.
Glad you liked it!
Pretty amazing to watch especially in person
That river is HUGE!
Indeed it is. The lower Mississippi is even wider. I think over a mile wide at some places.
Excellent video…thank you for sharing
Excellent video! Thanks. I'm hooked.
Lock and Dam 19 at Keokuk Iowa an Consists of a 1200 Feet Chamber and 110 feet wide and will hold 15 barges in full length and not including the River line Boat and is Real tight fit for the ship boat Captain to Navigate as entering the Lock Chamber on the lower side 9f the pool of the Lock Chamber.
Beautiful country. Years ago, did the 'Delta Queen' down the River from St.Paul to St. Louis!
Im hoping to catch a couple of the river cruise boats at some point. Just have the usual problems of weather and schedules etc.
Judd sent me. Great video of Lock 19.... also a STL viewer
Thanks for coming. Thanks to Judd and all the STL cam ops for linking it as well. Im gad people enjoy the overviews that the fixed location of the STL camera cant provide. That said, they do a great job on the streams and I watch them fairly regularly as well.
Very nice video, I am impressed and appreciate the work that must have gone into making it 👍
Thank you very much!
Interesting video. Very well produced. I have watched the Streamtime video here many times
Thanks. I have improved my skills (piloting and editing) a bit since, so I'm planning a revisit and new video of the area at some point.
I'm a regular viewer of the static, live feed webcam. I've known that the lower lock approach is a real bitch for towboat captains. The aerial view of that tow having to manuever to bring the bow around to allow it to enter the lock chamber. It's also great to see the up river approach along with the river beyond. That must be one heavy duty drone to get to such an altitude. The view from up there on such a clear day really provides a great view of this entire region for miles. A well done and appreciated video.
Thanks. I'm glad it helps everyone get more of the "big picture" of what all is involved to get those tows through the lock. That was my intent. The drone is actually one of the smallest on the market but it does pretty well for video quality. This is not shot in 4K but it is capable of doing so, which I'm going to try in the future. If time and weather work out Im hoping to do some more video along the river and plan to revisit Keokuk since its not all that far from home.
The north side approach is also very challenging !
Nice video b w! Surprised I haven't seen it before, but the link was posted this afternoon on the Keokuk chat.
Thanks. Yes the Mods at STL link it occasionally. Im glad folks find it helpful and or entertaining in some way.
Awesome work. I tried the drone scene but too old to have patience with it. Love the area view of what I see on stationary camera.
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing content can't wait to join for a career
Well done!
Thanks!
GOOD ONE, THANX
Glad you enjoyed it
This video is beautiful. I'm a producer at Iowa PBS - wondering if you might allow me to use it for an educational story I'm producing.
Hi Deb, Yes Id be happy for you to use it. I could also get you more of the raw footage if you need it. Ill get in touch to discuss.
Totally disagree this is excellent video my sister and I are very impressed. Music was perfect.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very well done..Thank you for all the effort.
It looks like they may be working on the old aux lock. Any idea what that's about?
Thanks. I dont really know if they are working on it or have any plans. I believe one is the old dry dock, long since abandon.
The tonnage that boat is pushing is amazing. Ok so the upper lock door goes down into the ground?? I have always worked on the Intercoastal waterway and lower Mississippi and have never encountered that kind of lock door. It actually looks cool. The buoy tender made the video.
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed. Yes the North gate lowers vertically. There are actually 2 gates on that end, one is wider so trucks can cross.
@@bw6378 I'm a tow boat captain and the furthest north I have been is St Louis. Made the Tombigby route a few times but 90% of my experience is on the lower Mississippi and the bayou s of southern Louisiana.
Well maybe you will get a chance to come farther north some day. I'm the opposite, in that I have seen very little of the lower Mississippi. I did see some river traffic on a trip to Louisiana several years ago but thats it. Maybe some day I will get back down to your neck of the woods.
@@bw6378 we will be waiting. The lower Mississippi can get rather dangerous during high water though so even we have to be very careful. If you get a chance to even do some trip piloting down here please come, but be aware that not every company have the correct hp for the conditions the river can send our way.
Sure seems like a lot of work and cost for the load mile (?). Isn’t rail a lot faster and cheaper, and more direct to the shipment customer?
No, one barge carries the equivalent of many trains. If you search around the web, there are tables showing how much tows carry compared to trucks and trains. According to these comparisons, moving the sort of goods they carry is the most efficient means of transportation currently available. Rail and trucks are faster, but in the shear tonnage each barges moves, neither trucks or trains can come anywhere near.
@@michaelgarrity6090 The barge business is heavily subsidized by the federal government - specifically, the Corp of Engineers. Barging is about the only reason it exists. When taking into account transportation cost efficiencies in re: rails and trucking vs. river mode, I suspect the ‘savings’ by barging rapidly disappears once the subsidy is subtracted. For 2022 the COE expects to employ 37,000 people and expend nearly $8,000,000,000. There’s no way the nation’s rails receive similar subsidies; they are private sector enterprises whose customers pay all the freight. Taxpayers pay a heavy price for subsidizing the river transportation industry, so for now I stand by my observation that rail and trucking are more cost efficient.
I stand corrected Frank. I surprisingly have never come across this information before, but you are correct, the barge industry is heavily subsidized. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of press coverage on the topic though, at least online that has been archived. I did find one very good article from Forbes dating back to around 2013 or so. That author did a good job laying out the position you share with him regarding the subsidizing of the towboat industry . That said, while I tend to be usually against things like government largess especially to enrich corporations, I admit their interests and mine converge in this case, because running the rivers in powerboats is one of the things I love most in life. In fact, this summer I am going to build my own little version of a "shantyboat" to do a several year long tour of most of or at least major sections of the Ohio River and it's motorboat navigable tributaries, the Tenneesee, Cumberland and Upper Mississippi Rivers. It's my bucket list "thing." At least in my lifetime, I don't want to see such subsidies of the towboat industry cone to an end, because if they do end, that means the USACE will begin a phase out of the locks and dams and that effectively means the end of assured and safe navigable waters for recreational purposes will also come to an end on many of the rivers. It certainly will be the case for my home river, the Ohio. I doubt though, given the current situation with shipping of all sorts and the supply chain issues, the end of such subsidies is not likely going to happen any time soon.
@@michaelgarrity6090 True enough Michael. There certainly are national benefits received by us all from river shipments of commodities, especially coal, quarried stone, fertilizer and grains. We all seem to derive a common good from whatever cost efficiencies (including the effects of federal subsidy exist) to not justify ending or crimping them. I still though, being a child of a key link city of the Mississippi river system, wonder how those 15 barge rows chugging 3 or 4 mph upriver can be more effective than rail. Seems when I watched the terminal loadings along the St. Louis riverfront that these installations followed the same practices filling tank cars and docked barges, so how can something move upriver, say to Minneapolis or even down to the key export link at Port of New Orleans, comparably. I’d expect a barge would take a week or more to get downriver (?), while a 120 car train could make it in 24-36 hours (?). Maybe speed is not of the essence in the commodity transportation business since most of them don’t expire or have finite lives.
Hello there Mississippi can you send some water down the tube to lake Mead lake Powell and all the other lakes here in Nevada California we would really appreciate it your kind hospitality. And you're late is truly beautiful please make us just the same as it ours as it used to be thank you
I’ve been there twice
What do the barges usually carry?
Most of the covered barges carry Corn or Soy beans, and possibly fertilizer that needs to be kept dry. They also put lots of other things in barges such as gravel, coal, scrap iron etc.
EMD’s roaring
must be quite a job just to turn those barges
Yes it for the ship boat Captain and Consist of a 1200 feet Lock and 110 wide and Real tight fit going into the Lock Chamber.
Really screwed that video up.
WHY did you have to change the soundtrack from those sweet 16 cylinder EMDs to that lame music?
The drone cant record audio so that has to be captured separately...which is obviously a challenge. I put in what I could, I love the sound of EMD's myself.