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12/02/2015 7:35 pm
Just trying to stay warm and I was going through some photos on my Picasa file. Anybody want to ID what this is and where is it and where am I taking the pix?
12/02/2015 8:03 pm
It's the Twilight and on the third deck and on the Mississippi River between Iowa & Illinois
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12/02/2015 8:29 pm
Bingo!
Yes, it is looking down from the 3rd deck at the TWILIGHT's calliope as we were somewhere between LeClaire and Dubuque Iowa. I'll have to find something harder....
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12/02/2015 9:29 pm
Try this one:
April 8, 1967 Boat last ran in 1945....
12/02/2015 9:36 pm
WJ QUINLAN
WJ QUINLAN funny looking boat
12/02/2015 10:01 pm
Could it be the Quinlan Former Ferryboat/Rock Island......at the Kahlke yard?..............
Totally off this subject, however tied into a 'lost' vessel I understand the KALAKALA (superstructure) is totally scrapped......no info on the hull as I write. Maybe a lurker from Seattle environs can fill in status of hull.
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13/02/2015 4:01 pm
WJ QUINLAN
Matthew Cooper;34157 wrote: WJ QUINLAN funny looking boat
Here she is. I presume you are referring to the single stack which is forward of the pilothouse. That does seem strange for the pilot's vision, however this boat only ran between Rock Island and Davenport, about a half mile across. Most of the time the view needed was to the side as she landed and left the docks. Her main deck held cars while the second deck was a ballroom, complete with a dance floor, band, and a few slots. I've posted many pix of her on other threads under the Steamboats category.
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13/02/2015 9:41 pm
A QUINLAN connection
My father rode the QUINLAN a lot and told me quite a bit about it, and as a kid we would take a quick drive down to Sunset Park, the river, and along Mill St. to see the decrepit old ferry rotting away in the Kahlke Boatyard. Dad also rode the CAPITOL and PRESIDENT on their UMR tramping trips. He would take my sister and me on the WJQ's replacement, the little diesel TRANSIT, once a week over to Davenport and back. He took us down to the levee to listen to the nightly AVALON calliope concerts and then we'd ride the Sunday afternoon trip. We also went down to that levee every night of the DQ's 1954 layup. So my river blood comes from him. After I started riding the DQ, he and Mom made 3 trips of their own on her, and he'd go with me to chase her, and later the MQ, as they came through here. If I got offered a lock hop, I'd toss my keys to him and he'd meet me at the next lock. I was hoping he'd make it to see the PREZ return here, but he died a year too early for that. Anyway the reason I'm recalling this stuff today is because it is his birthday, Feb. 13 - sandwiched among T.A. Edison, Lincoln, and Valentine's Day...