SENATOR CORDILL at Reedsville, Ohio. Independent Packet Line. Built at Jeffersonville, Indiana for Natchez and Vicksburg trade. Operated on Upper Ohio in later years of career. Came out in May, 1902 - Dismantled in 1939.
October 29, 1937. - Looking upstream from pilot house of Grafton. Graded bank and mattress weaving about station 219-00. Note curve on which Grafton entered below dike No.79.2L.
Watching the lock walls rise beside them, the Delta Queen's passengers are all well aware that they are experiencing the final act in a chapter of American history. How sad to think that future generations may well be deprived of this unique mode of travel and escape from our society's breakneck pace.
The Delta Queen approaches Lock 26 at Alton, downbound on her last trip before being taken out of overnight passenger service. The Queen made a stately and forlorn appearance as she eased into the locks, heightened by the melancholy mood of a still early morning haze.