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Your comment about river barges....I worked the last 2 summers in high school on the Intercoastal, up the Miss. to Vicksburg, MS, and swamps of Louisiana on a couple of tugs, first year as a deck hand and second year as a cook since I could cook and nobody else on board could...upped my pay a buck a day...from $15 to 16, room and board furnish...great wages back in '58-'59. We ran barge traffic of all sorts and running the oil rigs back up the Mermentau River in Louisiana was the most work....wasn't half a mile of straight river the whole way. We'd usually come in with 4 ea 135' oil barges as I recall and have to S them the whole way.....but, for a high school kid and summer activity, I loved it!!!!
The first boat was the Atlas and had a 6 cyl. monster with exposed pushrods and valve train making a clackety clack noise and 400 HP at it's 900-1000 RPM running speed. The second boat, the Lone Star, had a V-12 cylinder GM 4 stroke putting out 1000 HP as I recall. The GM was smooth as silk and very quiet for an engine that had side panels and the grease monkeys would take a side panel off and crawl into the engine for repairs some times.
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