<div dir="ltr"><div>While we're on the subject of steamboats around Pittsburgh I did notice something a few days ago. I was at Station Square and when leaving via Carson Street I saw a large, new, "tour" type bus painted with the logo and river boat scenes of the "American Queen". I just opened the email on the "Avalon" and decided to "bing" the American Queen.<br>
<br></div>I've attached a photo of it. It apparently is the reincarnation of the old "Delta Queen" and makes regular scheduled runs up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The schedule indicates it will be leaving Pittsburgh for St. Louis on August 10th. I will have to keep an eye out for this riverboat when it gets into Pittsburgh.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Bob Rathke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net" target="_blank">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This is a follow-up to the discussion a week or two ago about sternwheelers on the Pittsburgh rivers. At that time I couldn't find the photo I took of the excursion sternwheeler Avalon in 1957. Attached is the photo of the Avalon taken as passengers disembarked on the Monongahela wharf. Also a photo of a sternwheeler towboat that I took the same day, looking toward the Liberty Bridge, incline and P&LE station.<br>
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