Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/10/07 6:59 PM, "SonC@aol.com" <SonC@aol.com> typed: > > > In a message dated 1/10/2007 5:34:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, > mark@rabinergroup.com writes: > > Having a short stack of > those to carry on the subway under my arm. Look like an artist or > something.. > ---------------------- > > it was way off in the distance there..... But I just zoomed in feeling silly about the odds of me figuring this out...Made it go pixel to pixel there is was clear as mud QUEEN OF THE WEST. >From what I can make out It's the only sternwheeler propelled entirely not by steam by lithium crystals. "The U.S.-flagged, 230-foot Queen of the West is currently the only overnight sternwheeler cruise ship on the Columbia, Willamette, and Snake Rivers. Like sternwheelers of the past, the Queen of the West is propelled solely by her three-story-high churning paddlewheel. But unlike those earlier craft, the Queen doesn't rely on a steam engine. Instead, she is powered by a revolutionary hydraulic propulsion system that uses environmentally safe biodegradable hydraulic oil. Her 45-foot-long bow ramp allows passengers to go ashore anywhere along the river, much as the 19th-century vessels did. Launched in 1995, the Queen of the West is the first overnight passenger sternwheeler to be built and operated in the West in 80 years." Ok hydraulic oil then. http://rivers.affordabletours.com/Majestic_America_Line/Queen_of_the_West/ I'm taking the midnight train to Georgia next week. Really. Savannah. I'll be shooting the Marsh with my IIIF. Maybe a D40. Would love to travel by sternwheeler or other types of boats as well. Trains and boats and planes. Mark Rabiner New York, NY 40?47'59.79"N 73?57'32.37"W http://rabinergroup.com/