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Outstanding documentary. Even to this day, I see boats like the Steel Pioneer float up and down the river, carrying barges full of whatever.

2024 ... 28 yrs on the river and worked on the steel pioneer when Ingram barge owned it. Madison coal has it now I believe and under a new name. I also worked all her sister ships ... And pilot on the steel Express ( MV James E Anderson) I Started at the fleet this video started at.... Dravosburg fleet on the Mon river mile 16

My best friend was River boat man for 50 years it’s a hard life his family was river people

Love this old content, especially when its about my hometown. Had to crack up when I heard "warsh the boiler". 🤣😂

I'm greatful for the oppertunity to watch this documentary. Its so important to preserve AND keep available old films like this. Thank you!

@22:14 So glad she said pike pole instead of spike pole. I'll never understand how 99% of towboats started calling them spike poles in the early 2000s.

These comments are wild.

I work for Hines 81 to 84 came out on new towboat Warren W Hines off Louisville city front jeffboat built OH MS upper lower canals west corpus crisp TX

❤ different kind of life. Still dream about the river.

Back when men were exactly what Almighty God meant them to be… MEN!

Thank you for uploading this great film. His words said at 25:11 ring true.

Potable for ice?? 😮

GOOD ONE; THANX

Thanks for sharing.

This is great. It's about 5 years before I started working on the river.

This was the New France Highway. Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) to La Nouvelle-Orléans. I'm french Canadian and I drove trucks for a few years from Quebec, Canada to the United States and this river canal has always fascinated me since those years. With all the industries surrounding it, I have visited so many coastal towns and villages without being able to play the Tom Sawyer hidden in me. Build a raft and go with the flow. My son is growing up and this could be quite an adventure to plan and do together. Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinatti, Louisville seen from another point of view. One day I'll say that I had a dream and that I finally made it come true. I read in the New York subway on a wall poster "No great story start as it was cold so, I stayed in..."

Excellent documentary for The Ohio River! My son Jacob (12) and I launched our 14' boat/6hp Evinrude into the Monongahela (South side of Pittsburgh) June 2nd 2017. On our journey down river, we had one week to travel. Campgrounds, Small Towns, 12 Locks & Dams, Restaurants, Gas stops, Genuine People the whole way. We made it 440 miles to Neville Ohio, just short of Cincinnati. Mom met us with the boat trailer. What a Great Adventure! Thanks go to Jerry M. Hay/Ohio river Guidebook.

I’ve already watched this half a dozen times. This is my favorite type of documentary - well directed, well paced, narrated, great personalities on the river. Makes me wonder where they all are now.

This is awesome history i lived on the ohio river my whole life. Apparently a lot of people back in the day before the 1950s lived on the river in shanty boats like whole villages of them it was. big thing. Love seeing how the people used to be before this internet poisoned society. Real men and women the way the world really is if you just unplug from your phone/internet and quit listening to the damn lying propaganda news.

Terrific film! After having worked upon our inland river system for the past 35 years, seeing a film like this or reading a book like Mark Twains “Life on the Mississippi”, I realize how timeless our occupation is. While the lifestyle does have its costs, mainly with relationships, being gone so much; it also has provided a great income for my family. It has literally been recession proof. I have never been without work. It seems like there is always a shortage of pilots/captains, always. And even in the very few times I have seen a brief surplus, good captains are always still in demand. I think this kind of work is like a bit of a secret… a lot of young people don’t even consider it… which is a real shame. A motivated, moderately intelligent young person can put in their time on deck (two-three years) and then go after their pilots license and be earning a six figure income before most people finish their undergraduate degrees.

I'm hiring american workers Palanga to Pasvalys, good food, free ice cream Panevezys Baracuda project 🤖 big booty woman

I have seen the brown towers my whole life. Do you know waht they used to do?

I believe im right across the river in wv here but sadly jim justice is ruining this state inside out

The ol buckeye State

Was a deckhand for the entirety of my twenties. Never made it to the Ohio myself, only ever worked the Mississippi and the ICW. Makes me wish i had pulled a few more years to make a run that way, it looks amazing out there

This is just a stellar documentary. Makes me miss growing up near Cincinnati, walking over the Roebling bridge and watching the barges go by below.

Where are your radio's 😅

What an amazing part of our heritage 💪🏻

My middle school tech ed teacher used to have the sub wheel this video out on VHS when he was absent. This was back in 2016 and I just found it in my recommended now, crazy lol

I like love to watch these videos. Because I can relate to everything they show. And most of the towboats I've worked on around. I worked 35 years on America's water ways. And miss it.

Best video on youtube...real life gone extinct. I love these old relics

Old film

I wonder what ever happened to the couple on the rive bank....

I stumbled across this an now am Glad i did this is good stuff thanks👍👍👍👍

Thanks for this - - - - I started on the river in 1964 and have done ALL of this and worked the Monongahela, Allegheny, all of the Ohio - - - - and most of the other Western Rivers. Finally retired. I love the CRAFT - - - and - - - miss it all.

Worked on the river mainly from Houston to St. Paul, hauling anhydrous ammonia to make fertilizer. Been up the Ohio as far as Cincinnati. Up the Illinois to near Chicago and on the Missouri below KC. Put many a dent in bridge at Dubuque and have pulled the Queen from Cairo to Near Louisville.

@RandyStrothman1 Do you have a link to On The Cowboy Trail? I love this style of doc. and would love to see more.

Lots of crush injuries in that line of work. Camel straights, whiskey and hookers. Not an easy life. ( That's most likely what I would have done).

All Stores Please Lower the price of all Military and Local for all Brands of Barge products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

Big Fitz!

I was intrigued by the Ohio River as a a child. Sadly the fishing wasn't so good because of the industry since WW1 a nd then even worse WW2. I rarely caught anything aside of a catfish or a carp but still a lot of life was tied to that body of water. It's gotten much cleaner now since most of the mills, coke plants, plating plates and what ever else quit dumping all that trash in in there. Now we have every species that should live there and a very healthy eagle population. Something I only had seen in pictures prior to maybe 2000.

21 thousand tons of coal, steel and benzyne WOW. That might be a day today instead of several loads that size back then. This video looks to be shot in the 70's or early 80's.Very cool and thank you Randy.

Cookie holding her own between the guys must be a tough cookie...😏 i like her💥

The pace and tone of the doc and the people in it make for slooooow food witch i eat with gusto...realy love it👌

Oh my. Bless all the folk who work the rivers. Those oil paints, the stories....

Used to run from Convent, Louisiana to Calvert City, Kentucky running EDC barges on the old M/V Daytona for Scott Chotin The site we used to load out at in Calvert City is now a Superfund site

My family hiked around Cave-In Rock many times and heard the stories of days when it was used as a tavern or robbers den.

I loved watching the barges go by and wondering what it would be like to work on one. I was raised close to the Hubbards so our school took the 6th grade on a field trip to their farm. So much fascinating stories. Thanks for sharing.

I want that horn on my semi people wouldn’t know what to do me blowing that horn wooohooo 🤣✌️

Thanks for posting this . I used to have it but lost it years ago . I am a Retiered River boat captain . 41 years on the river .