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Photos: River Barges on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Mississippi
We had the opportunity to stop in at Vicksburg toward the end of June, 2002.
The river traffic became a source of immense interest for me as I had never
seen river barges travel the Mississippi before. Positioned as we were on
the river bank, we got to see the skill necessary to maneuver these immense
loads under the columns of two bridges. There are probably too many pictures
on this page of similar scenes, but we were trying to capture the entire
passage of a river barge coming around the far bend in the river and then
under the bridge. The size of some of the loads was impressive.
Clicking on the thumbnail of the photo will take you to the larger image.
Most are around 640x480 and average around 60 to 80 kb each for file
size. Photos were taken in late September, 2002.
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