*STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ FULL TOUR* 2024 | New Orleans
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Experience a relaxing cruise down the Mississippi aboard the authentic steam-powered stern-wheeler, Natchez! We'll tour the whole boat and learn a few things along the way.
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Love the "Calliope," it really adds to the feel of what it was like back when steam ships were all over the Mississippi River.
I totally agree!
Thanks for the beautiful video, Alex! Nice and relaxing. 🙂
Thanks Linda, I'm glad you liked it!
Awesome, looks like a beautiful boat!
Thanks Ken! Yes it really is beautiful, and so much fun to explore, and I had the opportunity to sit and relax on the journey back to the French Quarter and it was so peaceful. I was sipping a small Hurricane from the Natchez Bar and watching the landscape go by.
Thank you so much for making this vid! Totally brought me back to childhood sailing the Natchez when visiting NOLA with family! I now want to book a trip…
Awesome video alex well done ❤
Thanks Ozzie!
Great job Alex - felt like I was there on the boat and loved seeing the old engines still humming along driving the paddlewheel. Talk about "built to last"!
Thank you! Yeah the Engine Room was really neat. I haven't been inside any engine room before where the steam engines were running while I was inside!
@@AlextheHistorian I have only been in one running engine room - on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, a museum ship in San Francisco. I saw her at the port of Sacramento - can't remember why she was there. Engines running slow enough to just slightly pull on the mooring lines. Way cool! I believe it is an operating museum ship - maybe they still allow people in there to look around. There were crew there to explain and educate - wish I was still in that area so I could visit her again.
@LuvBubblesIII Oh neat, I've explored SS Jeremiah O'Brien but it was moored to the dock and the engines were not in use.
Nice video and looked like a beautiful day and journey!
Yeah it really was!
Alex, sometime you really should experience the Belle of Louisville (ex Avalon) in Louisville (please pronounce as Loo-a-vul!), KY--she is also truly a jewel.
Glad the Natchez is back! paddle wheeler steamboats are endangered ......only two left that i know of.
Nice video 💯💯💯
Thanks!
Rollin' Rollin' Karma Chameleon Always liked the steamers still have an Avon decanter also named Natchez but with side paddles and A tin battery powered 'show boat" that still works amazing. looked like A great day ...thanks
A fun adventure for sure! I enjoyed taking a ride when I was there in the 80’s.
Great video Alex
Thanks!
It’s like Disneyland…except irl. Life imitating art. Fantastic to see the origins. The great South/Mid West encapsulated in on a charming and characteristic riverboat.
I agree!
That was interesting Alex relaxing sail on a fascinating steam ship.
Thanks Charles!
Well that's a nice engine room, it's full of light and well ventilated. On European steamers (also paddle steamers), these engine rooms are normally off limits for passengers, except a few dedicated museums ships. There you have to go down a small iron ladder, in a cramped, hot, mositured small space which is nearly dark. Here a person with walking disabilities or even someone in a wheelchair can experience an engine room! That is nice!
Well I wouldn't say a person in a wheelchair can see the engine room. Because the lower level of Natchez sits below the wharf level, so the boat loads passengers on the middle deck. There are no elevators or ramps aboard Natchez, and the entrances to the engine room have a raised threshold, so you'd have to carry a person over the threshold just to get in.
HI ALEX THE WHOLE FAMILY AND I ENJOYED THIS GREAT WONDERFUL VIDEO... SO COOL MY SON MAX 9 YR.S SAYS WITH THE MUSIC AND THE BIG PADDLE WHEEL AND THE ENGINES AND PUSH RODS,.. MAX ASKS IF WE WILL SEE YOUR TRAIN SET AGAIN WITH YOUR TEA TIME ?? THX. GREAT VIDEO!!! CHEERS....
Hey Ronald, hey Max! Hope your family is doing well and had a Happy Halloween. Yes I'm planning to use my old RUclips channel to showcase my trains from now on. I haven't done anything new yet, no new videos. But you can subscribe to that channel "Alex the Railroader". And I think sometime this month I will begin livestreams of my trains and continue work on my train layout on that channel.
@@AlextheHistorian THANK YOU ALEX,, GREAT!! THANK YOU!!!
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of 'pane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
So i saw some photos of the queen marys 2nd class lounge in the flamenco decor personally i thought it was a but weird but im curious of your opinion on it also amazing tour
I personally am not a fan of the flamenco style -anywhere. So I'm glad that the flamenco decorations were removed from the Lounge when the ship was converted in Long Beach.
Great video! So do the Mark Twain and the Natchez basically operate the same way?
Yep! Pretty much exactly. Natchez has 2 boilers, Mark Twain has 1. Natchez's engines each have 2 cylinders, but the Mark Twain only has one steam cylinder per engine. Natchez recycles it's steam back into water and boils it again, but Mark Twain expells all its steam after a single use.
@ thanks!
How long was the ride?
2 1/2 hours. It was really relaxing and on the way back, they played live Jazz music from the band in the dining room.
a shame most people dont like the whistles lol
First to comment
Congrats!
Do you know about how many other passengers were on board with you?
Hard to say...I wanna say close to 200? But I purposefully visited New Orleans during a slow time of year. I wanted to avoid crowds everywhere we went.
Nice tour, but couldn't understand a word being said, it seemed muffled to me.
It's because the captain was using the loudspeaker system to narrate, and as I was walking around the boat I was passing loudspeakers. The video wasn't intended to capture the narration from the captain, otherwise I would have had to sit in the same spot for two hours.
"We" ? PS- He says Orleans wrong
Oui