The Big Towboat Mark Knoy Pushing 48 Barges Near New Madrid Missouri

This one was pretty far from shore which makes the audio faint and the video was short due to rain. Kinda cool how they keep underway while taking on stores. The boat, one of ACBL’s largest boats on the Lower Mississippi, is a triple-screw towboat built in 1977 by the Nashville Bridge Company, and originally called the Miss Kae D. It was rebuilt in 2010. It is 195 feet by 54 feet and runs on three EMD 16-710G7C main engines providing a total of 11,100 hp. The boat has three 120-inch Sound SS five-blade propellers. Ship’s service power comes from two John Deere 6135 250 kw. gen sets

[@user-qv2ho3kp5o]

The ol" Miss Kae-D...rode this one as a kid in the late 70's early 80"s...my dad was the pilot on there back then.

[@VinniePepperoni]

Man those power-plants sound amazing ❤️❤️

[@debdew7125]

Wow! Great video! Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@AntoniaRondon-li4cm]

What a beautiful video, this really big boat, 11 100 hp acbl, congratulations on the video, you are always the best, keep up the wonderful work

[@cds957]

Never saw this before.👍

[@user-sk9er8zf1b]

Nice clean looking boat. And powerful !

[@mrsbigbug]

What a beauty!

[@BowzerTowboats]

Sure is To bad it was starting to rain. Thanks so much!

[@chiefjohnsonBR549]

Gotta have them vittles , 👍💯👍

[@craigpalmer9196]

big river keep rolling, up at the soo locks they take on stores in the channel, and detriot the usps delivers mail under way

[@BurtSampson]

oh snap, one of those big ol' triple screw jobs. These used to be the kings of the river basically, i wonder if they still are.

[@thebabbler8867]

Yep; they still are.

[@gordonclark1581]

What speed are they actually making here?

[@BowzerTowboats]

If you were on shore you could keep pace walking along the river walk with this northbound. So he was about 3 to 4 mph. Southbound is about 7 to 10 mph

[@carterthechevrolet9219]

Why did that small boat appear next to the pushboat?

[@BowzerTowboats]

Dropping off supplies and sometimes mail.

[@gregmctevia5087]

Great job. How’s water level in the Mississippi this year?

[@BowzerTowboats]

Currently no low water restrictions and the Ohio river was flooding so south of Cairo the river is big.

[@gregmctevia5087]

@@BowzerTowboats Good news👍

[@randykaempfe7959]

Where you at bowzer

[@BowzerTowboats]

St. Louis

[@Shaken_AND_Stirred]

Tow boats with large amounts of tonnage are cool, but they are also super creepy in a way.