Save the Delta Queen: A private initiative to save the steamboat Delta Queen A private initiative to save the steamboat Delta Queen
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  • Delta Queen Memories

    I was born in 1950, right around the transition from steam to diesel. I still remember the sound of those chime whistles in the night.
    I was lucky enough to live near Cincinnati, OH, then home port of the Delta Queen. I often heard it’s large 10” Lunkenheimer, whistle, which was made in Cincinnati. I also enjoyed hearing its steam calliope. Although we nearly lost the Delta Queen in 1970 due to a misinterpretation of the Safety at Sea Law, a campaign to Save the Queen prevailed and the Delta Queen was granted an exemption. Cincinnati continued as the home port of the Delta Queen through the 1970s and into the 1980s. Even when the home port was moved, the exemptions have always been granted until this year. I hope that President Elect Barack Obama can reverse Representative Oberstar’s decision.
    In 1985, my wife, Patty and I moved to Paducah, KY where she grew up. We now have a son, Stephen, who turned 15 in April. We still got to occasionally see and hear the Delta, Mississippi and American Queens when they passed through Paducah, but it appears this era may be ending. I hope for the sake of future generations that this is not the case.     — Richard & Patty Weisenberber

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  • Share your memories!

    Would you like to share your Delta Queen memories here, too? Please send me an e-mail with your memories (keep it short, please!) along with a picture of yourself, or alternatively a Delta Queen picture from the time your memories are dating back. E-Mail: franz.neumeier@steamboats.org

Support in the U.S. Senate needed!

May 28, 2008

The Save the Delta Queen Campaign Team has pinpointed a potential ally in the Senate. There is a good chance that we can persuade Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to introduce exemption legislation for the Delta Queen. It is crucial that he hears from as many people as possible — especially from people living in Pennsylvania.

Please, if you can, contact Senator Specter and ask him to do whatever he can to get an exemption (preferably a permanent one) for the Delta Queen through the Senate. And please ask everyone you know — especially anyone who lives in Pennsylvania — to do the same. Also ask them to ask more people to do the same. Here’s where you can reach Sen. Specter:
 
The Hon. Arlen Specter
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4254
Fax: (202) 228-1229
Email through his web site: http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

Within the next two weeks we’re also going to deliver a set of petitions and resolutions to Sen. Specter’s office at Capitol Hill. This will consist of petitions, resolutions, and Steamboats.org petition messages that we’ve collected since our first delivery to them on April 18. Anyone who has petitions or resolutions, please let us know so we can give you details about whom to send them to and when.

The fight to save the Delta Queen has just begun!

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More Save the Delta Queen Rallies

May 20, 2008

Rallies to save the Delta Queen will take place on:

Friday, May 23 at Henderson, Kentucky: Audubon Mill Park beginning at 1:30 p.m. Entertainment by a bluegrass band assembeled by the International Bluegrass Museum.

Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day) at Madison, Indiana: Madison Landing from noon to 1:00 p.m. Entertainment by the Ohio River Minstrels.

Thursday, June 12 at Marietta, Ohio: At the Public Landing in front of the Lafayette Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 pm. Entertainment by The Musicians of Braeburn and the Treblemakers.

Please join one or all of these rallies and urge everyone you know to come out and join in!

The Delta Queen will in port for all three of these events.

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