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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] This thread piqued my curiousity about the riverboats again (not hard to do since most of the relatives on my mother's side spent most of their lives in Louisville, KY) so I went off on an internet search for the steamboats most recently operated by the now bankrupt Majestic Lines. The Delta Queen, as reported above, is a floating hotel/entertainment spot in Chattanooga, TN. I recall controversy about 18 months ago when the company was not granted an extended waiver allowing them to continue carrying river passengers overnight on a wooden boat. The American Queen..... the largest of the fleet built new in the 1990's is for sale 'as is' in Beaumont, TX. And, sadly, the Mississippi Queen, built new in the 1970's, was sold for scrap metal and hauled by tugboat to a scrapyard in New Orleans not quite three weeks ago. The Mississippi Queen ran into 'rough waters' in 2006 or maybe 2007....I only scanned the article... when a number of passengers took ill (food poisoning maybe?) on a cruise and had to be taken off the boat for medical care in St. Louis. The boat finished it's season without further incident BUT was withdrawn from service and much of the interior was gutted that winter with a full renovation.....including converting a number of the economy cabins into luxary suites..... planned. Then the economy swooned and advance bookings tanked. Plans for renovation were shelved, the company went bellyup, and ownership of the floating remnants passed to a Canadian firm which recently decided that the prudent decision was to cut their losses on the scrap metal market rather than invest in making the boat 'passenger-ready' again. Very sad to see something so pretty and so relatively new go to scrap. I'll bet the men in Roanoke felt much the same way seeing their class J locomotives head for the scrapyard in the late 1950's. To my knowledge, no one is now offering overnight cruises on any of America's great rivers. I might ought to plan a daytrip on the steamboat 'Belle of Louisville' while I still can! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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