num_pages: 320
description: After the initial release in 1983 of Ways Packet Directory 18481983 the demand was enormous for a similar treatment of the steam towboats that once populated the Mississippi River System. Captain Frederick Way Jr. aided by Joseph W. Rutter gathered together this wealth of information concerning steamboats that shoved river barges laden with coal petroleum products chemicals sand gravel and similar bulk commodities from the headwaters of the Ohio River to the jetties of the Mississippi.The steam towboats that performed these services have completely disappeared from the scene their places having been taken by hundreds of modern diesel-propeller towboats but this thorough and remarkable reference guide helps preserve their history.
language: English
title: Way's Steam Towboat Directory
publisher: Ohio University Press