Towboats pushing barges laden with coal and other heavy cargo navigate the 981-mile length of the Ohio River, from headwaters at Pittsburgh to the its confluence with the Mississppi at Cairo, Illinois, and beyond to the Gulf of Mexico, below New Orleans.

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