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  • Not many ports have the infrastructure to load rail cars onto barges.  (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Campanario joined the crew aboard the tug for a very short but important part of the journey: the sail from Ballard to Harbor Island, where the tug hooked up a fully loaded barge. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Western Tugboat's crew getting ready to sail to Whittier, Alaska. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • The Ballard-based Western Towboat Co. has a fleet of 21 tugs and employs about 140 people, said Rachel Shrewsbury, whose grandfather started the business in 1948. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Capt. Brent Bierbaum at the helm and three of his four-person crew down below worked together to chain up the barge. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • The amount of things you can put on these floating platforms is mind-boggling. Capt. Brent Bierbaum said this one included 51 rail cars and the equivalent of 132 semi-trailer trucks. Topping the massive stack were several boats and a Caterpillar excavator. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • And there went the Arctic Titan and its barge as the evening colors began<br />
to paint the scene over Elliott Bay. Smooth sailing! (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Tough tugs, big cargo
  • Crewmen use 14-foot aluminum pike poles to sort logs for bundling. (George Carkonen / The Seattle Times, 1970)
    Sorting for bundling
  • Crane unloading 28,000 tons of alumina at Tacoma and Mead, near Spokane. (Seattle Times archives, 1967)
    Waterfront crane
  • Bill Humphreys, 65, above and below, calls the monorail “a bus and a train combined.” It’s powered by electricity, but it runs on 64 tires. Sixteen tractor-trailer size “load tires” go on top of the rail and 24 run sideways on each side, guiding the trains along the track. Humphreys, a native of Texas, said he’s worked for the monorail for 12 years.
    Seattle Center Monorail maintenance shop
  • The Cargo ship Maersk Kawasaki is being loaded at Port of Seattle’s Terminal 18. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Port of Seattle cargo ship
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