Barges: Barge, 1993 Big Bayou Canot Train Wreck, Royal Barge Procession, James Baines, Sailing Barge Thalatta, Thames Sailing

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Barge, 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck, Royal Barge Procession, James Baines, Sailing barge Thalatta, Thames sailing barge, Red Jacket, Dry bulk cargo barge, ING 4727, Rhine, Pleasure barge, Power barge, Anjodi, La Belle Epoque, Scottish Highlander, L'Impressionniste, L'Art de Vivre, Puppet Theatre Barge, La Renaissance, Marine transfer operations, Nymphea, La Dolce Vita, Rosa, I-40 bridge disaster, Johanna Smith, Lighter, Magna Carta, Self-propelled barge T-36, Mersey Flat, Gambling ship, Hopper barge, Luxe motor, Ross Barlow, Caligula's Giant Ship, Dutch barge, Thalamegos, Spitz barge, Death barge, Lumber hooker, Stumpy Barge, Liquid cargo barge, Concrete barge. Excerpt: The 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck was the derailing of an Amtrak train on the CSXT Big Bayou Canot bridge in northeast Mobile, Alabama, USA, killing 47 and injuring 103, on September 22, 1993. It is the deadliest train wreck in the history of the United States passenger railroad company Amtrak. In terms of fatalities and destruction, this wreck substantially exceeded the severity of the Chase, Maryland accident that occurred in 1987. This wreck occurred after a CSX Transportation swing bridge over the Big Bayou Canot in southwestern Alabama (about 10 miles northeast of Mobile) was struck at approximately 2:45 AM by a barge being pushed by the towboat Mauvilla (owned and operated by Warrior and Gulf Navigation of Chickasaw, Alabama), whose pilot had become disoriented in heavy fog. The collision forced the bridge approximately three feet out of alignment and severely kinked the track. At approximately 2:53 AM, Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives (one GE Genesis P40DC number 819 and two EMD F40PHs, numbers 262 and 312) en route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the...