[PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Quite simply, Mr.Long, this is a 'text-only' list to keep it simple isn't it.
Enhancements beyond capital letters are not included (sometimes bold
does display but that is not reliable (*bold.*)

Mr.Brashear can describe this more efficiently.


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On Sun, 8/4/13, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PRCo] Delta Queen and Successors
 To: pcc_sr at yahoo.com, "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
 Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013, 9:38 AM
 
  
 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