Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.
The C. W. Talbot is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built at Midland, Pennsylvania in 1929 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are:- 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has four boilers. Her compound condensing engines, 15's by 30's with 7-foot stroke, produce 750 horse power. Her paddle wheel is 19 feet 4 inches in diameter, 23 feet long, working 13 buckets of 40-inch dip. The Talbot is