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    A tug pushes past us in the early morning with a barge tow at Kaskaskia Lock & DamDeparting the Kaskaskia Lock wall. Two Bloopers have already gone.Only bridge engineers need apply. Building a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River.A visual indication of the Mississippi River current. See next image.1Speed Over the Ground - 15.2 mph. Speed Through the Water - 10.46 mph1A train and a barge tow pass , moving upstreamA general view of the Mississippi, briefly sans shipping, as we see it on this downstream voyage1A Union Pacific Railroad freight train crosses the Thebes five-span cantilever truss bridge1We've turned left past Fort Defiance Point and are in the Ohio River1If we moored here around midnight, we'd see the real City of New Orleans crossing this bridgeTugboat base and barge dry dock on the Ohio RiverBNSF coal train (with hind-end DP out of sight) heads upriverPreston manoeuvers and drops the anchor at Olmsted Lock & DamMaking sure the anchor is gripping the river bed...

    Day 19: Kaskaskia River to Olmsted Lock

    21 Oktober, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

    Our final day on Ol' Muddy. We'll run down to Cairo [KAY-ro] and turn up into the Ohio River to anchor for the night below the Olmsted Lock & Dam. In doing so, we'll leave behind the advantage of the river current as we motor upstream.

    The day starts out windless and the river's calmness is a pleasant contrast after yesterday's sandblasting breeze. This soon turns, as the forecast wind gets up... this time from the opposite direction... which really has our ensign confused.

    Nonetheless, the weather is otherwise fine and Rosie and I enjoy our Mississippi views. She watches for bald eagles and I watch for BNSF trains (and unlike yesterday, I do see a few, including with DP power on the hind end.

    One interlude comes for us as we motor past the city of Cape Girardeau, the largest burg between St. Louis and New Orleans. The city is known as the economic centre of southeastern Missouri and the home of Southeast Missouri State University.

    We catch up again (we did yesterday, and he's passed us as we slept) with the barge tow being shoved downstream by the City of New Orleans. This gives me a second chance to harass Rosie with my excrutiatingly funny joke... "Rosie, what are the guys on that tug doing?" "I don't know, what?" "Riding on the City Of New Orleans (🤣🤣🤣😅😁)".

    Eventually, by 1500, we're into the broad, double S-curves that will see us to the confluence with the Ohio River. We reach there at ....... and make our turn into the Ohio current. This tip of land we're turning at is known as the 'lowest part of the state of Illinois, with an elevation of approximately 279 ft (85 m). This location is also known as Fort Defiance Point. As we turn, we enter the state of Kentucky. 300 miles to go to the Cumberland River and southbound again.

    10 miles upstream we go to the new Olmsted Lock & Dam, where we drop the anchor. There are two other blooper boats nearby. I cook the rice and Rosie does a stirfry.    Baca lagi

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