[PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors

[Dwight Long]

Phil

Properly CAPITALIZED, yes, but not properly ITALICIZED (as names of boats and ships should be).

Dwight

From: Phillip Clark Campbell 
Sent: Sunday, 04 August, 2013 08:36
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors
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




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