It's cold, wet, white and yucky in upstate New York, but Deb and I are 5 days away from getting on the American Queen. We're starting into the "can't wait" phase and to further the mood a little bit I thought I'd surf and search for steamboatin' stuff...
Anyways I found six wonderful videos, all posted to Youtube very recently. I guess it turns out that our webmaster Franz was the one to post them, even though they don't show up on dot.org just yet. Unless I missed it, it appears he is too modest to "show off" and let us know these exist.
Go here:
http://youtube.com/user/steamboatsorg
and look at Delta Queen #1 through #6...DQ #6 is the best, my opinion. And be sure and wear your headphones or turn on the speakers...nice calliope and whistle action. I'm pretty sure I recognize the calliope style as Travis...
Very nice stuff Franz, all taken off the boat, taken at a distance. Is there a story...did you take these? And is it just me or does it seem that all the videos were taken at very different rivers/areas of the country?