Cool video, as a kid living in Keokuk I watched the barges come through the locks but never saw it from the perspective of the captain. Thank you for sharing.
Keokuk was our stop point growing up to my grandparents place in Mercer County, Missouri from our residences in Piatt and Champaign Counties of Illinois even stopping to fish, watch the river barges and trains with Dad a few times (in the 1970s)
I mean that's really what it takes to work on a tow boat/push boat, if the whole crew works as a single unit then everything flows just like the rivers, but if someone's starts gettin screwy then the whole operation gets to being as tense as disarming a bomb especially goin through a lock
Man, this was fun! I grew up in Keokuk (till I was about ten, anyway) - and I used to play on those bluffs to the west, and I was over that old turntable bridge (on my bike and in my folks' car) prolly a thousand times. I used to tour the lock and the power house, whenever I could get down that way on my bike. (That was back in the day when a seven year-old kid could run all over a town of 16,000 without worrying about winding up, in pieces, in a chest freezer in some guy's basement. At any rate, this was a really cool (and well filmed) glide through lock 19! And you sure can handle that boat! Thanks for this unique view of Keokuk!
While I still lived in Iowa, there was a group of us that would take highway 99 south to Burlington, then cross the river and continue south on the Illinois side. We would cross back over at Keokuk over the old bridge with the expanded steel flooring. Full to look down from the bike and see the river below. And if a tow was coming, we loved to stop and watch the tow lock through. Quite a distance between pools!
Good Morning Captain, StreamTime LIVE is putting up a live stream camera here . CAN'T wait. Please step out a wave and toot your horn and blow us out of our chairs , I well be sure to say Hello from Canada, and so show us your beautiful Smile. It well be soon... they already have at Ft Madison on the trains ,bridge and the Mississippi River. It well be youtube thankyou Captain I so enjoy your videos
Cool video, as a kid living in Keokuk I watched the barges come through the locks but never saw it from the perspective of the captain. Thank you for sharing.
Keokuk was our stop point growing up to my grandparents place in Mercer County, Missouri from our residences in Piatt and Champaign Counties of Illinois even stopping to fish, watch the river barges and trains with Dad a few times (in the 1970s)
Having been a truck driver and railroad conductor i always admired you river tow guys that looks the job to have.
Thanks. Respect to you as well. 👍🏻
Thanks, Captain. What a great video! Glad to be along for the trip.
Love this up close & personal viewing from Colo but was a local there 50 yrs ago, native. Thanks
DAMN! I luv watching someone who's good at what they do, do what they do!!!!!! You and the crew work as one, WOW!
+Mike Pendergrass glad you enjoy. Thanks for compliment 👍🏻
I mean that's really what it takes to work on a tow boat/push boat, if the whole crew works as a single unit then everything flows just like the rivers, but if someone's starts gettin screwy then the whole operation gets to being as tense as disarming a bomb especially goin through a lock
About a 38 foot rise. Fun to watch a boat go through the lock. I've seen the lock drained dry for repair work.
Been watching your videos for a while now, great work! Great escape from my desk job, keep them coming, thanks, Mark- Chicago
There's a live stream camera there now.
Man, this was fun! I grew up in Keokuk (till I was about ten, anyway) - and I used to play on those bluffs to the west, and I was over that old turntable bridge (on my bike and in my folks' car) prolly a thousand times. I used to tour the lock and the power house, whenever I could get down that way on my bike. (That was back in the day when a seven year-old kid could run all over a town of 16,000 without worrying about winding up, in pieces, in a chest freezer in some guy's basement. At any rate, this was a really cool (and well filmed) glide through lock 19! And you sure can handle that boat! Thanks for this unique view of Keokuk!
It's a neat looking area. Glad you enjoy.
I've always been intrigued by barges. Love watching them cruise past Cincinnati. Thanks for the insight.
While I still lived in Iowa, there was a group of us that would take highway 99 south to Burlington, then cross the river and continue south on the Illinois side. We would cross back over at Keokuk over the old bridge with the expanded steel flooring. Full to look down from the bike and see the river below. And if a tow was coming, we loved to stop and watch the tow lock through. Quite a distance between pools!
Good Morning Captain, StreamTime LIVE is putting up a live stream camera here . CAN'T wait. Please step out a wave and toot your horn and blow us out of our chairs , I well be sure to say Hello from Canada, and so show us your beautiful Smile. It well be soon... they already have at Ft Madison on the trains ,bridge and the Mississippi River. It well be youtube thankyou Captain I so enjoy your videos
In 1976, the bridge operator let me ride it with him. His name was Bill Bornshuer🙂
Cool video skipper I thought I saw snow there at the end but you said it was rain. Thanks!
What an awesome video !!!
A lot of people have no clue how much weight goes up and down that River
And what products of America
Good vid...thanks f sharing
Very interesting, fit like a glove.. lol : )
it's nice to see other rivers. I work on the Illinois and des Plaines rivers
That's where I got my start on deck. We ran Lemont to Grafton.
I'm running north side Chicago to Peoria. I live in Arkansas and I'd really like to get on the Ohio or the lower Mississippi
You are da man skipper
my home town right here
1200 foot locks are the best!
Word!
you going to be on the upper most of the summer? Last your you didn't make it up here more than about once.
I really don't know. I work many places and many different boats. I know where I'll be week to week, usually.
It's actually been about three years since I've been up here.
+marktwained yeah. be cool to meet you sometime when your swinging thru the keokuk area.
this lock has a live cam running here on youtube
Good Video!
its noyt allwas that much fun iword as a deak hand for 10yrs on the miss and tnrivers
iwish some one would put a vid of tem making the tow wosw thay put riging on the barges
Anyway ... we’re up out of here...!!
sow I can show howthay make up the tow and the dams like syoping thr frist ct I try to tell the
Would of loved to hear you kick that engine in on the push out..