Steamboats should be paddle wheelers , one sidewheeler and one sternwheeler .Then race , ROBERT E. LEE vs. NATCHEZ style .

Also if locomotives are built a good test would be a tonnage pull.

-- Hank Stoltz (HCStoltz@AOL.com), February 06, 2001

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Yeah I can see it now 20barelllong fiftyfive gallon drum catamaran powered by a 6-71 detroit. it'd beat the water into submission. I just love the sound of a Detriot at speed. Screamin Jimmy's Rule!

-- Stephen A. Binion (Stephenbinion@hotmail.com), February 06, 2001.

This is a great idea! I can see those paddle wheels spinning too fast and flying off in pieces. How would they stear it. Dave

-- Dave Richert (daverichert@hotmail.com), February 09, 2001.