rare sight -- towboat and barge on Missouri River near Hermann 9/2/20
Channel: John Edwards
Date: 05/08/2022

This is a towboat and barge on the Missouri River at Hermann, MO on September 2, 2020. Unfortunately, such a sight is rare now even though towboats and barges were a common sight on the Missouri River prior to the Russian grain embargo of 1980. Apparently the traffic fell way off and has never recovered to pre-embargo levels more than 40 years later. So it was nice to see a towboat and barge on the Missouri River at Hermann in  September of 2020.