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    My first trip on the DELTA QUEEN was in 1984, and was a wedding preset from my Dad, to my Wife Linda and me. She loved Steamboatin’ and the calliope, and I loved her VERY much! I lost Linda to cancer in 1988 (at 28 yrs old) and I have lots of fond memories of my loves on the DQ: one, my wife, two, the DQ, and third, the calliope. How many more loves in my life do I have to lose? The DELTA QUEEN can be saved. My wife could not be. — Dave Morecraft, “Widower”

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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

Delta Queen, American Queen at Helena, Arkansas

Nov 4, 2008

Ken McRae from Little Rock, Arkansas, sent this beautiful picture from the Delta Queen just after passing the Helena, Arkansas, Mississippi River bridge on the evening of November 1, 2008. Doesn’t she look like a brand new vessel in this wonderful evening sunlight? Hey, Congress, she’s not ready to go, don’t you see this?


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From Gaylon Reasons, Tennessee, come this great shot of the Delta Queen along side the American Queen at her port stop at Helena, Arkansas, on November 1, 2008.


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Ken and Gaylon, thanks very much for this gorgeous pictures and for sharing them with us! I hope so much these are not some of the last pictures of the Delta Queen in operation.

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