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[ 08-15-2001: Message edited by: Great Lakes ]
[ 08-16-2001: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
As a major collector of CP memorabilia in Britain I have just been handed another of life's little targets and I thank you for it.
On a future trip to the States this museum has just got top priority!!
Thanks again
There are other retired lake steamers, both passenger and freighters, that are open for tours also. A great resource to find where they are located is the booklet, Know Your Ships:2001, www.knowyourships.com published yearly and has all operating and laid up lake boats along with the museums listed. Also there is still the coal fired S.S. BADGER that carries passengers and freight on Lake Michigan between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI.
Next year will hopefully be a banner year for passenger travel on the Great Lakes; Delta Queen's C.V. CAPE MAY LIGHT is scheduled to make numerous cruises on the Lakes including several three, four, and seven night round trips out of Chicago!
So you can see where my loyalties lie you may care to visit http://www.paddlesteamers.com where you will be able to visit the former LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) Paddle Steamer Waverley which is preserved operationally over here. You may even find some of my photos of this years activities on the site.
Why should I have CPR sympathies? - well CP sailed from the Clyde and the Waverley and her sisters used to tender to the Empresses.They also sailed from Liverpool and I can still remember seeing the Empress of England brand new in Canada Dock from the much lamented overhead railway at the tender age of six - many years ago!
Knowyourships looks a vital source of information, but you mention much activity on the Great Lakes next year - where could I find details from which to plan a visit - that is if they have cleared the Welland Canal locks by then (!)
quote:Originally posted by TBirdFrank:- that is if they have cleared the Welland Canal locks by then (!)
Could you further explain yourself?
There were no casualties and the waterway is now clear, but the ship has only been moved to one side for survey and now fleets of lawyers are manouevring into position.
Looks like being an interesting winter!
The Waverley looks like a beatiful ship. Where did they get the money to restore her? The Waverley must be a really popular ship for them to be able to find funding for a complete rebuild. If you're really interested in paddlewheelers the Great Lakes where home to the largerst sidewheelers ever constructed. If you go to Historical Collections of the Great Lakes and type in "Greater Buffalo", "Greater Detroit", "City of Detroit III" or "Seeandbee" it will provide you with a pciture, complete technical information and a timeline of the ship's history.
Our national lottery makes grant aid available to qualifying projects after some jumping through hoops - a hell of a lot of jumping through hoops!!
It took us two and a half years to get through the mill and when we came out the other end the refit had increased in cost and complexity from £3.5m to £5.1m
We cheese pared back to an actual £4.1m spend but increased the proportion we funded so that our share of £5.1m would be the same as it would have been of £3.5m and are now back trying to get the other £1.0m to completely finish the job.
The problem - The lottery wanted authenticity - the Marine Safety Agency wanted compliance. You can't have both so delay and re-writing a specification to both bodies satisfaction resulted in the extra cost.
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