This was a very impressive trip I took with Troy on the Mississippi river just below one of the locks at Hastings. On one side was the railroad where we watched a train go by and on the other side of the river we saw a tugboat bring six barges into the lock to go upstream. To see them from the water surface makes them a heck of a lot bigger than what they seem like from the river’s banks.
We kept well clear of the barges – they have such a shallow draft that they are notorious for having the water suck you right under them with the flow of the river.
