http://www.newschannel5.com/content/weather/skycam_bsb_north.shtml
Skycam image of a Mark Twain-type Riverboat docked in Nashville, on the Cumberland River.
Don’t you get riverboats much in Nashville? I guess I’m spoiled; I see the Belle of Louisville all the time! And we have the great steamboat race at the Derby. They’re very cool, I admit!
Less often than we used to, now that Opryland closed. 
Thanks for the link–she’s a beauty! And you get an idea of how BIG it is.
If you click on the “click for larger view”, you can seen several small cars around it, to the right.
Heck, we have the Stenrwheeler Festival here in Marietta each September. And the Valley Gem gives rides every weekend. The foliage tour is kicking.
I guess I’m spoiled, too.
Is that really the size they were back then? That’s pretty huge.
I rode the General Jackson when I was in Nashville a couple of years ago. It may be electric (I don’t know for sure,) but it still looks like a paddlewheel boat. It docks just down the street from the Grand Ole Opry.
What???
What happened to the Opryland Hotel? That was an 'ell of a place.
I saw a large paddlewheel steamer at dockside on the Columbia River last May. There must be some company running paddlewheel cruises up there, too.
Impressive!
I took a tour on a steam powered sternwheeler in N.O a few years back, w/ a lady friend. They had a dance band and we had a tour of the engine room, as I recall it had just two very large horizantal cylinders driving the paddlewheel. The engine room was immaculate, all the brass and copper polished, very impressive. Had a great time and then off to mouse world.
The hotel is still there, but the amusement park is now a mall and parking lot.
Actually, no. This is the Mississippi Queen, the largest steamboat ever built. According to this page it’s an all-steel boat completed in 1976. You scan see its schedule here - it arrived from Chattanooga and leaving for Memphis today.
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Perhaps they’ll show it again tomorrow.