Don Getty spent 25 of his 38 years working for the Corps of Engineers on the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, including 19 as the project manager. Getty, 66,… Read More
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Cracks found in both lower miter gates during dewatering have extended the closure of the Lockport Lock, located at Illinois River Mile 291. The lock closed for installation… Read More
Capt. Darrell Pyke At age 19, Darrell Pyke was attending a welding school when an older man named Willie Neville struck up a friendship with him. Neville worked on dredges… Read More
Canal Barge has a unique distinction among long-lived towboating companies. “In the 91 years we’ve been operating, Canal Barge has seldom if ever tied up a boat or laid anyone… Read More
Capt. Jesse Rogers Few people know the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway as well as Capt. Jesse Rogers and his crew. Rogers is captain of the mv. Tenn-Tom, the Corps of Engineers-owned towboat… Read More
Capt. Danial Kuntz One of Capt. Danial Kuntz’s first teachers in life was also one of his first in the river business. Kuntz, 39, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, went to… Read More
Faith and family are everything to Capt. Cecil Dilworth of Parker Towing. Dilworth, 51, of Tupelo, Miss., has worked for the company for 17 years, making his way into the… Read More
Capt. Scott Dupriest Capt. Scott Dupriest is a captain with Tennessee Valley Towing on the mv. Tom Freeman, a twin-screw 3,450 hp. boat built by Marine Welding & Repair Works… Read More
Each February in the “Wheelhouse” special issue of The Waterways Journal, we feature profiles of some of the captains who helm commercial vessels on the waterways. We hope you’ll enjoy these… Read More
The previous two columns have been about the original Ashland Oil & Refining Company (AO&R) towboat named Ashland going missing during a flood in December 1942 and January 1943. Read More
