Show Your Colors

May not be a stretch of any river, but here are some shots of the Lake I took a couple weeks ago. There is some color visible in the second picture, but it was mainly for the MINNE 🙂

Don't think there is anything in Texas to match that! Thanks!

Not yet, but Texas doesn't do much until Nov. Here are some aspen near Vicksburg...Colorado that is.

This is how the Cypress look on Caddo Lake about this time of year.

RH and RH Colors

Two more pics of the Colors along the Ohio River at Mile 506, give or take.

1. Downtown Rabbit Hash

2. Rising Sun is across the Ohio from the Hash.

FFC

As the 5,000 horsepower towboat, PAUL STRIEGEL, serenely dog-paddled past the Hash, it gave time for the pilot to enjoy the fast fading colors of fall.

Chautauqua Belle in Mayville

A beautiful shot, Mat! I am curious as to why y'all (or someone) removed the bullrails from the main deck? And what about those silver stacks?

I'll second that, a nice shot indeed! Also, it looks like she's tied up out from shore a bit. What's up with that?

She is sitting on her carriage on the rail system in the picture. We moved her onto it so that when we brought the dozer over to pull her out she would be all ready. That's also why the bull rails are removed, we take them off to sand them down and repaint them each winter along with all the rest of the railings, wheel, etc.

As far as the stacks go, years ago she had cast iron stacks and because of the lack of care to the boiler they burned the stacks right out, one of my engineers said that during the last season the old organization ran her, the boiler backfired so severe that it blew the navigation lights clear off the stacks and into the drink! So they stacks were replaced with a very high quality stainless steal, and my mind set is that if I do put black paint on them, thats just one more thing I have to do every year (if the paint would even hold to it)

Here are a couple more photos where u can see she is pulled out of the water a bit and the polls that come up for the carriage of here side

Thanks for the explanation Mat! You are right about the stacks being one more thing to do. We did all of our stacks about 3 or 4 years ago, but they really need to be done again

Silver stacks on a steamboat are nothing new. Both the PRESIDENT and ADMIRAL has silver stacks trimmed with a red, white and blue collars. Also, I saw a photo of Captain L. Cooley's cotton packet AMERICA, and she had stacks that were painted a light shade of color with dark painted circles around the stacks.

When MOR was on the CHAUTAUQUA BELLE during October 2008 she had no bull rails either. In their place were three plastic coated wire lines that ran through the stationaries with turn buckles to keep them taut, and the human cattle from falling over. On top of that ran a wooden hand rail to lean on, but not what I would call a bull rail.

Looks great-- all over-- including the silver stacks. Mighty fine photos, too. Very artistic. Who took 'em? You? What kind of camera was used?