Face-off in Point Pleasant

Here's something I hadn't seen before: Two boats pushing and pulling to get some barges into the Kanawha River from the Ohio. We came upon this scene as the Dru Lirette and the Leonard L. Whittington were pushing and pulling. I don't know what happened before we got there. But we did get these photos.

For those wanting to know, the boat in the background in the top picture is the Lawson W. Hamilton Jr.