12-20-2008, 02:32 PM
I'm not familiar with barge traffic on the Mississippi River. Out here in So Cal we have a company that loads trucks and trailers, mostly semi trailers, on barges to haul goods to Santa Catalina Island. they take loaded trailers over and bring back the empties. The next day they repeat the process, or it may be every other day they run over. Do they put rail cars on barges on the Mississippi to move to another port up or down the river? Would loaded rail cars be put on a barge in St Louis for example to go to Minneapolis, or is everything break bulk loading?