#working river

Das Rhein 2016. I mentioned it’s a working river. An earlier post zoomed into the 2x cars on the back of the barge, but here’s (almost) the whole vessel, including the bicycle at the bow. Like Koln cathedral, it can’t fit into one pic (on a conventional camera). Aren’t the houses by the riverside cute!

Das Rhein is very much a working river, and we were constantly passing, overtaking, or being overtaken by barges. This is a good example of the design challenge of making a vessel sufficiently low-slung to be able to sneak under a myriad bridges when the river is high. Also intriguing here is that the barge carries a couple of run-around cars with it, for when they want to nip into the local beer hall of an afternoon.

This is a study of a tuboat’s  lights some nights back. The fuel tanks on the bank also had a few lights worth studying.