The Steamer Fairplay And Capt. Vernon Byrnside - The Waterways Journal
The James Rees & Sons Company built the steam sternwheel towboat Henry A. Laughlin for Jones & Laughlin Steel Company in 1905.
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The James Rees & Sons Company built the steam sternwheel towboat Henry A. Laughlin for Jones & Laughlin Steel Company in 1905.
The recent closing of Blank River Services also brought an end to marine activity at the site of the historic Elizabeth (Pa.) Marine Ways.
Capt. David Barchie looks for new challenges and opportunities every day. That’s why working on the river has always appealed to him. Barchie, 60, of Daphne, Ala., began working for American Commercial Barge Line in 1983 and went up into the wheelhouse in 1986, but he has been on the river for far longer. Barchie was in high school when he worked for a summer as a deckhand for the former Dick Meyers Towing Service, based in Mobile, Ala. At the time, his father was also working on the river, for Ohio Barge Line. “I used to go down there on Saturdays when he worked traffic and fish off the ...