AEP River Operations: Working on the River 

Worked the CJ Bryan back in 76 to 86. Great memories

My Dad was Captain Dickie Pope, he was the skipper on the C.J. BRYAN at 1 time sure do miss him and all his stories. He sure did love the river.

My uncle Sean Meadows worked on the AEP boat for over a decade or two. He was training people before he passed from covid this last October. It was hard on all of us. I’m working at the power plant that his coal barges were brining coal to and from! I will carry on for him and both our families,and I even got my twic card so I could hop on the barges someday if I want! Rip uncle Sean Meadows!

Awesome video! I'm going for training for as a Deckhand and this really gave a good look at what it'll be like.

Man that's one of the things I miss about Ohio we lived right off the bank a few miles from the sciotoville rail bridge in wheelersburg we'd see em every day I miss that low drone of the I used to sit at my bedroom window late at night and listen for that sound it was something to see when the water was up to almost over the bank the wake was something else too I live in South Carolina now and ain't no barges here we've been here since June of 87

I look out the window and get my binoculars and I can see the Norfolk southern rail yard and the tugboats getting barges getting pulled away : )

Greg John Freer from new York glad to see you doing well ! How are all my buddies from Pomeroy?

I use to work that boat on the other crew that was off during the filming that is a great crew and boat to ride I miss it

What do you start out per hour or what ever your pay is?

how/where do i apply for a deckhand position ? I live in Wheeling WV.

I started working on the boats in 1974 and starting pay for deckhands then was $18.50 per day

i miss seeing them on the Mon river

Come to The netherlands to see how inland navigation is organised you Will be surprised.

I'm still trying to get hired at this place.

Same here i keep putting in applications everytime i see a opening.

you can push 30 on the ohio river you gotta double lock them unless they have changed that

Awesome crew i worked with each of them except the deckhands.

Yea operate the boat is awesome

man i hate doing doubles lol, cause we dont have mates or extra guys its jsut stern and lead, and it requires 3 people to do a double so one unlucky bastard gets woken up lol. I worked on the Monongahela River for a little bit (pittsburgh) and all those locks are 600 feet adnd they ALWAYS have us with a full tow (20 stumbos or 15 jumbos) anad all the locks are like pnly a few miles apart.

Вот силище буксира, а работа вся одинакова у Речников, что в СССР мы раньше возили уголь за 3000 км по Амуру только у нас было 4 баржи

ways the purpose of a lock

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i was a deck hand over on the sister vessel the Robert M. Kopper.