WallyWorld
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That is awesome! Thanks so much!
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Liberty Square Riverboat And The Lone Smokestack
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TrainsOfDisney
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I’ve always liked the difference from west coast to east coast personally. When comparing the steam boats to the steam trains, I like the variety. It would be boring if all of the locomotives were 4-4-0’s for example.
RFM57
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Sorry to be picky, but since you have used the term shown above at least twice I have to assume you are not aware that the proper term for a boat with a single paddle wheel at the rear is a "stern-wheeler" (since the "back" of a boat is its stern.) The two types of paddle wheel steamers are stern-wheeler, with a single wheel on the rear, and side-wheeler, with one on each side.
The bridge swings as mentioned, and the boat is then towed:
Old Wabasso Bridge Makes a Trip to Walt Disney World
The Old Wabasso bridge crossed the Indian River near Walt Disney World's Vero Beach Resort.www.florida-backroads-travel.com
WallyWorld
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Wow....thanks for the pic....this is really good stuff I never knew. Thanks so much!
TrainsOfDisney
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Agreed. We really got lucky, and can probably thank John Lassiter that the locomotives and steamboat were properly rebuilt.
Not picky, that's actually good to know. Just became a habit since a child to call them side, back-wheeler, etc.
Interestingly, and it's hard to see from the image in my first post, but the stern-wheeler at the Georgia park (Stone Mountain) has two wheels on the back. That riverboat was used less often than the side-wheeler, as it's purpose back then was for special occasions, weddings, booked events, etc. Very rarely, it would run in place of the side-wheeler (the Scarlett O'Hara) when she was down for routine maintenance.
mickeyandkrunch
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Don't they have 2 ships. Admiral Joe and Liberty Bell??
lazyboy97o
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Admiral Joe Fowler was destroyed about 40 years ago.
It was proposed early on but we got the Irvine instead. Nowerdays we are sadly lucky to have one still.
Movielover
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And that it still moves...
Indeed
Captain Barbossa
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1:35 mark. This was on Saturday. Still the same single chime Lunkenheimer. The steam flow when the valve first opens is much better, which makes the whistle sound much better. No more delay, which caused that annoying, painful screech. Maybe they gave it a thorough cleaning. Still rather have Roy’s original Baldwin 5inch 3 chime, but this sounds way better than it first did.
Raineman
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One of the things that I love the most about MK is the ability to, many times a day, no matter where you are in the park, hear one or both of the whistles from the Liberty Belle and the WDWRR. It's something that invokes that nostalgia and emotional response. The WDWRR was not running last November when we last visited, and I missed hearing that whistle; if they were to get rid of the Liberty Belle, especially before Tron is done and the train isn't running, it would be extremely disappointing to not hear that whistle again, to say the least, in addition to not being able to take that relaxing ride around the RoA.