[PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Everything in this message, and your original reply, come through properly capitalized Mr.Long.
Nothing is 'foreign' characters here.



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On Sat, 8/3/13, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors
 To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
 Date: Saturday, August 3, 2013, 11:42 PM
 
 
 List
 
 FYI, I sent this message with the names of the boats
 properly italicized, but somehow (another Ecartis thing?)
 the italics disappeared! The font has also been changed from
 that in which I sent the message.
 
 Dwight
 
 From: Dwight Long 
 Sent: Sunday, 04 August, 2013 02:18
 To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
 Subject: Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors
 
 Herb
 
 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. 
 
 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.
 
 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.
 
 Dwight