A massive power station was next to the ship museum.
You always wanted to know where Noah lived, well apparently it was on the Rhein. Here is a plan of his ark and you can clearly see this is not small boat but a large ship.


This shows railway lines leeding up to a ferry that will transport them across the river		  

Here you can see the ferry with some wagons aboard.



If coal is going into a barge, this is how they tip the wagons.

  



This salvage barge has just rescuged ‘The Beatles’ in their Yellow Submarine.

Before the age of steam, they used sailing barges

 


Here I am with a propeller.

Annette on a mud dredger.

 


The paddle steamer ‘Oscar Huber’. She was sunk by the army in 1945 to save her from being damaged. Later the ship was refloated and served into the 1980’s.

The ship’s engine room.


There is always more ironing to do on a paddle steamer.


This is the ruin of the imperial castle of Kaiserpflaz. It is quite a ruin, but not such as Tintagel Caslte.
Two barges on the Rhein.

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