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Old 08-24-2016, 02:38 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by Notlandlockedforlong View Post
Haha! It's perspective, I suppose. When you said "loaded from the end" I visualized the barge being nosed into the bank, so to speak. You are correct, a barge is loaded from one end to another, parallel to the bank. No, I was not a tankerman, we called them line boats, not fleet boats.

I made the same mistake in visualizing it.
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