Big Towboat Mississippi River

[@deborahedwards1427]

My daddy worked on the tow boat the Rosedale, that is where we lived. My dad and Charles Strait worked together. Charles and my dad would ride my brother and and myself on there motorcycle. I miss living in Rosedale, MS. Thanks for sharing. Jerry Edwards.

[@pstar4721]

Definitely my new favorite channel. I’m so fascinated.

[@bennetts-revenge_2]

Love the Mississippi, traveling with my husband before he passed away. I have seen the river from top to bottom. Got some pictures of it. My husband was a trucker so I've been all over the States. Thank you Captain Kyle. A lot of places you go to I have been to on land

[@dillrq57]

Great show! Is what I like to see..lots of river!

[@richardcasey4439]

I ALWAYS think of Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Can’t help it

[@michaelgarrity6090]

Great video of the river. You've been blessed to have found a damn cool job. Your job is not only cool, but in the years you have done it, the things these boats haul have helped keep this country and it's economy going. With your videos, you have been doing a modern version of what Mark Twain did, document the history of the Mississippi in the times each of you lived. Most of what he did was fiction of course, but in the details of writing his stories, he was describing what river life was like back in those days. Your videos actually show a slice of the reality of what it's like to be part of the crew of these mighty river towboats. Your videos will hopefully continue on to allow those in future generations to see what things were like in this era of river and American history for both regular folks and those who will come to professionally study that history in the future.

[@docfox3976]

I don’t know if you’ve ever thought of it this way, but you have an artist’s eye. It really shows when you’re on the river. Best part is, you seem not to try to make art, you just do it naturally. Thanks for creating some beautiful art!

[@lennygerber5631]

This job is always fascinated me watching this past forward looks like to me it's like driving a shopping cart backwards basically

[@andrewwingfield8290]

Man I enjoy watching never worked on the river I have a whole lot of respect for the job y’all do

[@phillipsmith7081]

I like the high speed camera show up and down the river. Do more of it from time to time.🙂

[@lmartinez3633]

Amazing footage

[@lookingbehind6335]

Reminds me of pushing large on the Elizabeth Dewy. Only boat I was ever on with WKN. I always wanted a ride on the Mississippi. That way we wasn’t working our ass off running through locks. Glad we had stationary rigging also. That’s a long way to carry everything. Actually we had it really good back then. Even had harbor boats when building and breaking tow.

[@galegregory97comcast]

You're right there kept Kyle that is a pretty day and you're driving abilities is like Cool hand Luke style

[@wendellbatiste5519]

You got a beautiful tugboat on mighty Mississippi

[@lt1nut]

That looked like a picture-perfect day on the river.

[@jacksawvel1458]

My Dad Don Sawvel and brother Don Sawvel both did the Captain work on the Mississippi.

[@sycodad4483]

How far north are you heading? If I had known you were in St. Paul Minnesota a while back I'd have hooked you up with a few pizzas for dinner.

[@The35211]

See you are back on the river. Sure like your Videos. It reminds me of Chief Engineer Charley Eyer On the old Hortence Ingram in the 70s. He took 8 mm camera with him and Took alot of Film when on the Boat. Then he would put the Film on a big reel. He made shipping boxes of wood and shipped them to me .I showed them and it covered All the Rivers. I wonder what happened to them.

[@zilufuzi]

Mornin’ Capt. 🙂

[@trwaintime]

Wonder how many skate/snow-boarders don't realize that operating tons of cargo up and down navigable waterways is, from a physics standpoint, =/~ to how they maneuver their boards on their favorite life playground surface....bouncin' off the twists and turns...then applying a power "kick" to keep in motion??🤔🚢🛹...safe sailing Cap'n Kyle🍻👍