About a month ago, Adam and I saw the new AEP towboat Mike Weisend just below Wheeling, but there was no place to pull over to get a photo. This evening, shortly before sunset, I saw the Weisend again, and this time I had a place to pull over and a camera. Here the Weisend is passing Huntington, specifically the Highlawn neighborhood, in the area of the water intake and the old Ohio River Co. coal loading dock.
As you can see here, the Weisend was kicking up some wake.
The big disappointment of the evening was when the boat rounded the bend and headed toward the East End bridge. The sun really lights up the bridge cables, which are wrapped with white plastic. But here, as I was lining up my shot, the sun went behind a big dark cloud for a while.
So this completes my set of the new AEP boats to go along with photos of all the new Marathon boats in action. I lack two or three of the new Crounse boats, mainly because they haven't been up this far yet.
Maybe there's another group of boats I need to get -- before they're sent to South America like the turtlebacks and the Hillman boats.
