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The 98-Year-Old Engines That Propel The Natchez

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The 98-Year-Old Engines That Propel The Natchez

October 17, 2025

Nine excursion vessels attended the America’s River Roots festival in Cincinnati October 8–12. Two of those were steamboats: the iconic, 111-year-old Belle of Louisville, a bona fide national historic landmark,… Read More

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Towboat Trivia

June 6, 2025

While attending and participating in the very enjoyable 2025 IMX in Nashville, I was talking with Zac Metcalf, the associate publisher of The Waterways Journal. We were standing outside the… Read More

Remains of an Early 20th Century Towboat Stir Memories The Wm. Edenborn new in 1913. (From the author’s collection)

Remains of an Early 20th Century Towboat Stir Memories

April 25, 2025

There are times when a single photo can cause a flood of memories to wash through the mind. This happened recently with a photo depicting a partially beached hull with… Read More

The Str. Southland oldboat

The Str. Southland

December 27, 2019

In 1910, the Howard Shipyards at Jeffersonville built a trim sternwheeler named Nashville to run in the Evansville–Nashville–Paducah trade for W.W. Parminter of Nashville, Tenn. The wood-hulled riverboat measured 155… Read More