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<DIV><FONT size=4>FYI, I sent this message with the names of the boats properly
italicized, but somehow (another Ecartis thing?) the italics disappeared! The
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dwightlong@verizon.net
href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net">Dwight Long</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, 04 August, 2013 02:18</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and
Successors</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"><BR>Herb<BR><BR>It
and the Mississippi Queen were commissioned by the same company that owned the
Delta Queen, which was the successor in interest to the old Greene Line of
Cincinnati, the company that sent Fred Way out to Calif. after WW II to choose
either the Queen or King and sail the chosen one back to Neville Island to
be modified into the DQ as we knew her on the river. He wrote a book
about this adventure—quite a tale. The later Queens were built for two
reasons: insufficient capacity for the tour business on the DQ; and
concern (well placed as it turned out) that the DQ, because it was not an all
steel boat, at some point in time would not be given another exemption by the
Feds to operate on the Western Rivers. <BR><BR>The Delta King is a
non-operational floating hotel and restaurant tied up on the river in
Sacramento, not far from the Calif. RR museum. One can watch trains
crossing the river while having a drink on its outer deck, a pleasant way to
spend a nice summer afternoon.<BR><BR>Both original Queens were built by
John Brown’s boatyard on the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, and shipped
disassembled to San Francisco where they were reassembled. They provided
overnight steamer service between the City and Sacramento until WW II, when the
Navy requisitioned them for service. After WW II they were offered as war
surplus—see above.<BR><BR>Dwight<BR><BR>From: Herb Brannon <BR>Sent: Saturday,
03 August, 2013 22:54<BR>To: Western PA Trolley discussion <BR>Subject: Re:
[PRCo] Steamboat Avalon (now the Belle of Louisville)<BR>While we're on the
subject of steamboats around Pittsburgh I did notice<BR>something a few days
ago. I was at Station Square and when leaving via<BR>Carson Street I saw a
large, new, "tour" type bus painted with the logo and<BR>river boat scenes of
the "American Queen". I just opened the email on the<BR>"Avalon" and decided to
"bing" the American Queen.<BR><BR>I've attached a photo of it. It apparently is
the reincarnation of the old<BR>"Delta Queen" and makes regular scheduled runs
up and down the Mississippi<BR>and Ohio Rivers. The schedule indicates it will
be leaving Pittsburgh for<BR>St. Louis on August 10th. I will have to keep an
eye out for this riverboat<BR>when it gets into Pittsburgh.<BR><BR><BR>On Sat,
Aug 3, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke@comcast.net>
wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>> This is a follow-up to the discussion a week or two
ago about<BR>> sternwheelers on the Pittsburgh rivers. At that time I
couldn't find the<BR>> photo I took of the excursion sternwheeler Avalon in
1957. Attached is the<BR>> photo of the Avalon taken as passengers
disembarked on the Monongahela<BR>> wharf. Also a photo of a sternwheeler
towboat that I took the same day,<BR>> looking toward the Liberty Bridge,
incline and P&LE
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