Tows and Coal Barges Waiting Turns on the Locks on the Ohio River
Description:
This unusual picture taken by the United States Engineer Office, Pittsburgh, shows four big tows of coal waiting their turn at a lock chamber of the Ohio River. The fourth tow is discernible against the farther bank of the river. There are 24,000 tons of coal in the barges of these four tows.
Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River
Description:
A Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works locking through a dam in the Ohio River. There are 6000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.
'London Lock under construction by Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, to replace Lock 2, two miles upstream. Handley, West Virginia, at right, London at left. Chesapeake and Ohio in foreground. New York Central and route 60 beyond river. Looking east southeast 14 miles below mouth of Gauley River.'
'Marmet Lock under construction by U.S. Engineers, just above Lock 5 which it is designed to replace. Marmet, West Virginia, in foreground. Platt cross Kanawha River. Looking east northeast 28 miles below mouth of Gauley River. Taken about 1:30 p.m., April 28, 1932.'
A view of the dam and locks on the Allegheny River at Parnassus, now a suburb of New Kensington, P. A. The dam and locks were engineered by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
