<HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; COLOR: #000000">
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Phil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Properly CAPITALIZED, yes, but not properly ITALICIZED (as
names of boats and ships should be).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #000000; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 4px solid; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #000000">
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma">
<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pcc_sr@yahoo.com
href="mailto:pcc_sr@yahoo.com">Phillip Clark Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, 04 August, 2013 08:36</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>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #000000; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 4px solid; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #000000">
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">Everything
in this message, and your original reply, come through properly capitalized
Mr.Long.<BR>Nothing is 'foreign' characters
here.<BR><BR><BR><BR>--------------------------------------------<BR>On Sat,
8/3/13, Dwight Long <dwightlong@verizon.net> wrote:<BR><BR>Subject: Re:
[PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors<BR>To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"
<pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org><BR>Date: Saturday, August 3,
2013, 11:42 PM<BR> <BR> <BR>List<BR> <BR>FYI, I sent this message
with the names of the boats<BR>properly italicized, but somehow (another Ecartis
thing?)<BR>the italics disappeared! The font has also been changed from<BR>that
in which I sent the message.<BR> <BR>Dwight<BR> <BR>From: Dwight Long
<BR>Sent: Sunday, 04 August, 2013 02:18<BR>To: Western PA Trolley discussion
<BR>Subject: Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and
Successors<BR> <BR>Herb<BR> <BR>It and the Mississippi Queen were
commissioned by the same<BR>company that owned the Delta Queen, which was
the<BR>successor in interest to the old Greene Line of Cincinnati,<BR>the
company that sent Fred Way out to Calif. after WW II to<BR>choose either the
Queen or King and sail the chosen<BR>one back to Neville Island to be
modified into the DQ <BR>as we knew her on the river. He wrote a book
about<BR>this adventure—quite a tale. The later Queens were<BR>built for
two reasons: insufficient capacity for the<BR>tour business on the DQ; and
concern (well placed as it<BR>turned out) that the DQ, because it was not an all
steel<BR>boat, at some point in time would not be given another<BR>exemption by
the Feds to operate on the Western Rivers. <BR> <BR>The Delta King is a
non-operational floating hotel and<BR>restaurant tied up on the river in
Sacramento, not far from<BR>the Calif. RR museum. One can watch trains
crossing<BR>the river while having a drink on its outer deck, a pleasant<BR>way
to spend a nice summer afternoon.<BR> <BR>Both original Queens were
built by John Brown’s<BR>boatyard on the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, and
shipped<BR>disassembled to San Francisco where they were reassembled.<BR>They
provided overnight steamer service between the City and<BR>Sacramento until WW
II, when the Navy requisitioned them for<BR>service. After WW II they were
offered as war<BR>surplus—see
above.<BR> <BR>Dwight<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Pittsburgh-railways
mailing
list<BR>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
</BODY></HTML>