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Re: Consort Barges
Posted: July 14, 2016, 8:57 pm
by wlbblw
Douglas Houghton making up the tow with the "137" off Buffalo:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater
Re: Consort Barges
Posted: July 12, 2016, 6:56 pm
by BigRiver
John Ericsson of the Upper Lakes fleet towing the consort barge Alexander Holley. Date and photographer unknown.
Re: Consort Barges
Posted: July 12, 2016, 1:38 pm
by Jay Bascom
Yes, Upper Lakes did. They regularly used James B. Eads, Maunaloa II, Douglass Houghton and John Ericsson to tow barges - usually to Goderich, Sarnia and Port Colborne. The Paterson and Hutchinson fleets used them into the mid-1950s. Q&O and Hindman also used former consort barges in the pulpwood trade but used tugs to tow them rather than powered freighters.
Consort Barges
Posted: July 12, 2016, 8:45 am
by Guest
I read that consort barges were used to increase the amount cargo transported on each voyage. Didn't Upper Lakes Shipping continue using consort barges into the 1960s?