Steamboat

[indago]

Journalist Jim Salter wrote for The Associated Press 14 January 2017:
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Missouri's U.S. senators are renewing efforts to get the legendary riverboat the Delta Queen cruising again on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. ...The 285-foot-long, 88-cabin vessel, immortalized in poems and songs, is in dry dock in Houma, Louisiana. Last year, the company opened a restaurant and gift shop in Kimmswick, Missouri, 24 miles south of St. Louis, and plans to move the riverboat to the Missouri site if cruising is allowed.

Plans call for having the steamboat visit more than 80 ports each year on the Mississippi and its tributaries, including Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans and Pittsburgh.

...McCaskill said the cruising riverboat would create more than 100 jobs and millions of dollars in economic growth and tourism revenue. Blunt said it would "allow more Americans to experience a taste of history along the Mississippi."

The Delta Queen began operation in 1927.
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[Moonglow]

McCaskill is full of shit...She needs to work on the extreme poverty of her district...Stupid bitch...There are poultry processing plants closing and she wants a riverboat cruise...Dumb kunt...

 

[indago]

McCaskill is full of shit...She needs to work on the extreme poverty of her district...Stupid bitch...There are poultry processing plants closing and she wants a riverboat cruise...Dumb kunt...

You mean it won't "create more than 100 jobs and millions of dollars in economic growth and tourism revenue"???

 

[dannyboys]

Journalist Jim Salter wrote for The Associated Press 14 January 2017:
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Missouri's U.S. senators are renewing efforts to get the legendary riverboat the Delta Queen cruising again on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. ...The 285-foot-long, 88-cabin vessel, immortalized in poems and songs, is in dry dock in Houma, Louisiana. Last year, the company opened a restaurant and gift shop in Kimmswick, Missouri, 24 miles south of St. Louis, and plans to move the riverboat to the Missouri site if cruising is allowed.

Plans call for having the steamboat visit more than 80 ports each year on the Mississippi and its tributaries, including Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans and Pittsburgh.

...McCaskill said the cruising riverboat would create more than 100 jobs and millions of dollars in economic growth and tourism revenue. Blunt said it would "allow more Americans to experience a taste of history along the Mississippi."

The Delta Queen began operation in 1927.
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Obviously the "steamboat" will never be 'steam powered'. Way too environmentally unfriendly. It will be run on good old dirty diesel.