File:Towboat V.W. Meythaler downbound with a coal tow at Clark Bridge Louisville Kentucky USA Ohio River mile 604 1987 file 87j149.jpg

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English: Towboat "V.W. Meythaler" downbound with a coal tow at Clark Bridge (2 of 2)

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1987
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Author William Alden III
Camera location38° 15′ 37.51″ N, 85° 45′ 08.6″ W  Heading=270° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Looking W from Clark Bridge
Towboat "V. W. Meythaler" downbound with 15 barges of coal, approaching entrance to Portland Canal
In center distance is raised lift span of Fourteenth Street (Conrail) Bridge

Twin screw towboat "V. W. Meythaler" (doc. # 548689, length 145, breadth 48, GM 16-645E5 diesels, 5600 hp.)
Built in 1973 by Jeffboat, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Owned by American Commercial Barge Line, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Sold in 1994 to UABL/Ultrapetrol, Asuncion, Paraguay, and renamed "San Martin"
Renamed "Soledad" in 2000
Renamed "San Martin I" in 2005
Photographed in late 2010 by Maxi Alonso on the Paraná River at Rosario, Argentina
Photographed in late 2012 by Roberto Attias on the Paraná River at Corrientes, Argentina
Current whereabouts unknown (UABL filed for bankrupcy in early 2017)

Ohio River mile 604
Louisville, Kentucky
Oct. 1987
File # 87j149

scanned from 35 mm Kodachrome slide
scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8
edited with Picture Window 4

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