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Bob Conley, left, and Stueve Sugranis, crew members with Upper River Services of St.Paul, Minn., prepare an empty barge for towing to a nearby elevator, where it will be filled with grain before heading down the Mississippi.
( / Dan Nienaber/CNHI News Service)


A grain elevator employee in Savage, Minn., inspects a Mississippi River barge loaded with wheat bound for New Orleans, where the cargo will be offloaded to an ocean-going ship and transported to overseas markets.
( / Dan Nienaber/CNHI News Service)

Published: March 27, 2007 02:34 pm    print this story   email this story  

Mighty Mississippi: Moving barges into place

By Dan Nienaber
CNHI News Service



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