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Very interesting thank you. Wondering what happened to the Ohio falls and the river that changed things.

Belle of Louisville Kentucky proud!

Reminds me of that time I escaped my old pappy on his sour mash and played hooky from school to float fown the Missouri fishin' with this runaway black feller named Jim.

How often do you have to tune it? Why do I ask? Er... no reason...

Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury.... now I know what a calliope is! Thank you!!!

Every American should recognize this sound....Once familiar as paddle wheel steamboats plied the mighty Mississippi.

I like learning about all the different types of organs

I’m 24-years old and I love this. I must be an oddity.

Rest In Peace titanic

Happy 110 birthday Belle

The ray Willam johnson

SO cool! I've ridden the Belle a number of times since I was a small boy (right about 1963, when it first went into service for our city!). WONDERFUL video, brought back SO many great memories!

Hey captain Mike remember when I got to drive the belle

Nice to see the original brass keys. Very few have them nowadays.

Why do you have to move it left and right before selecting the next command? Why just not directly place it on the next command?

As a veteran of US Navy, I cringe when I hear a ship referred to as a 'boat'. In the Navy, the distinction is that a 'boat' can be carried on a 'ship'. (Submarines of course are the exception: Submarines are 'boats'.)

I made a cardboard version of the belle

Thank you for sharing ths piece of history

What is Stand by used for

A mí me gusta más el silbato del Titanic

Thanks for this. I like obscure instruments. Calliope a marvellous use of what was there ... steam!

Answering bells was one of my favorite parts of shipboard life. Except for the dreaded full astern bell when you know something is wrong

I need to hear some Calliope Mori on the calliope

SWEET

Upcoming Video: "Global Cartoon Medley" on the Calliope of the Belle of Louisville

bro this Is amazing

It sounds like Moomin music😁

Mr. Laforge, take us to warp.

I love the old calliope steamers, just sounds soothing.

British trains:

Cally-ope!

I am going to ride the belle, never done it

I see... Thank you!

Amazing! Just a thought, but do you think you could play "In Our Lovely Deseret"? If so, it would be greatly appreciated!

I was watching a clip of the 1997 Titanic movie’s “Iceberg, right ahead!” scene the other day, which portrayed the use of these things on the eponymous ship. When I saw how they were used I was like “wait, those ship throttles don’t actually directly control the ship engines and only simply control a dial in the engine room telling the engineers how to set the engine?”, so I decided to look it up on Google and Wikipedia about them. Apparently they are called engine order telegraph (EOT), and that’s precisely how they worked; these things were common in steamships from the 19th until the mid-20th century. In fact, even on modern ships of today, their throttles - which can directly control the engines and are referred to as remote control throttles - can still be switched to operate in a mode not dissimilar to how EOTs work, and traditional EOTs are still used on nuclear-powered ships and submarines as they require an engineering crew to work the nuclear-driven steam turbines.

I find it absolutely amazing, that we managed to take care of this vessel for 108 years!

I am suprised that we still use ships with telegraph systems! By the way I just wanna know, is the ship still in use?

Not sure why, but these things give me the creeps!

POV: iceberg ahead Crew: Iceberg right ahead sir! *runs to the telegraph* 0:32 BAD ENDING OF TITANIC Captain: look at those two people, Lets make this a movie. 0:46 *hits iceberg* Crew: well then *goes to telegraph again* 0:51

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I grew up in Louisville, so the Belle will always awaken pleasant memories! I moved away, but visited in 2000 and took a ride. The calliope player was a young blind man. Does he still play for you?

With a mechanical telegraph you sometimes do these back and forth movements just to get the bells ringing longer indicating urgency. With electrical telegraphs you don’t need to do that because they will keep ringing until the engine room responds

That's pretty neat to see

Why in James Cameron titanic movie, let’s say you have full ahead and then you want to throw it into reverse. Why do they go forward, Back, forward to operate them while here you just put them forward 1 and you don’t have to do that back and forth thing.

I remember Katie from my last cruise on the Belle through the McAlpine locks. There was a violent thunderstorm and many of the passengers were nervous. Katie said "This boat is over 100 years old , sails in all kinds of weather....and has never had a serious accident. Years agp....If a boat didn't sail in a storm...it would lose money...this boat was no exception." She was great!

Considering there is only one steamboat left on the American Rivers...the Belle should be the winner by default..the others are non steam powered and basically.....fakes.

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Who plays?

that's pretty cool that it gets boiler water from the river i would've thought the river water potentially having dirt and sediment in it would be a problem, but i guess it isn't too much of one

that's pretty cool i didn't know that was an instrument at all entry of the gladiators works really well with it