Paddle Crank at the USACOE St Louis...

Belonged to the St. Genevieve? Only sternwheeler I can think of that the Corps
would have spare parts to. Note the Corps tan paint.

I’d say that’s a pretty good gues, Luke.

Look at the flanges and they can tell you two things for sure. The boat had a staggered wheel and Nordberg engines. The two flanges in the center are set up for a staggered wheel and only Nordberg had those teardrop shape cranks.

The St. Genevieve did NOT have a staggered wheel.

So who's crank would they be packing around? It looks like Corps tan.

Morning friends,

Anyone operating a stern wheeler today with this type of crank configuration need a spare? Which boats would this work on?

Here is a view of the St. Genny's backside... looks like the crank on the barge at St. Louis.
ALso a great link about attempts at restoration in the 80's. https://qctimes.com/news/local/remember-when-the-ste-genevieve-called-the-q-c-home/collection_9e968ae9-1637-5092-9206-56e3592c2021.html#34

That is an excellent picture of the Gennys wheel. I blew it up so that my 83 year old eyes could see better and it appears that it is what the "old timers" called a split wheel. Would that match the center flanges as Frank Prudent saw them ?? The mystery continues. Maybe "Tommy Towboater" would solve the mystery???

I think that photo solves the issue. It's not a staggered wheel that she has, but a wheel heavily built with a set of two flanges in the middle of the shaft. And we know that she had Nordberg machinery.

Mystery solved... now, why are they still packing it around? Too big for a yard ornament,
me thinks. I've got a steam thermometer from the St. Genny somewhere in my garage...
she was scrapped here in Paducah and the fellow who took her apart gave it to me. I never
did anything with it, no boat name, only "Lunkenheimer".