Topic starter
02/11/2012 10:15 pm
As many of you know, lock repairs at 25 have caused the AQ to begin/end her recent trips in Hannibal rather than in St. Louis. On the upbounds she has been adding stops in Burlington and Davenport due to less distance to travel. So she was here in Davenport yesterday morning and left shortly before 1 PM. About 3:30, my sternline telegraph rang with the news they were making an unscheduled stop in LeClaire Iowa. After about 3 hours, the 'tune-up' to the starboard z-drive was completed and she continued upriver. Since I was at yet another church meeting, I couldn't go up there to view this historic landing, but even my non-river friends are 'trained' to be on the lookout for river news. So thanks to a couple of them for these pictures.
The AQ pulled in just above the Buffalo Bill Museum - the red brick building partially visible in the second photo. Just downstream and connected thereto is the LONE STAR. Immediately below that is the CITY OF BATON ROUGE, the TWILIGHT's wharfboat. None of these things are in these pictures.
03/11/2012 11:27 pm
No circus wagon garb?
The boat looks rather plain - no circus trim and excess flags? No complaint here - just an observation.
Thanks as always for the photos!
Wesley
05/11/2012 3:14 pm
It looks like it is late in the daylight. I do remember that they used to take the extra flags down each evening, so it could be that this is still the routine and the flags were taken down already. The flag at the back of the boat stays up all the time, though.
Topic starter
05/11/2012 7:23 pm
Sunset
I received the call that they were pulling into LeClaire shortly after 3, and they left at 6:14 PM, so yes the flags had probably been taken down already.
09/11/2012 4:49 pm
Wesley Paulson;30927 wrote: The boat looks rather plain - no circus trim and excess flags? No complaint here - just an observation.
Thanks as always for the photos!
Wesley
Are you confusing us with the Queen of the West? She does look like a circus wagon, y'know. (Hold your fire. I'm kidding)