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I've been back home to "Spring Creek" (Tennessee) since the end of November last and this is one of the shots I took when I managed to get a trip on the General Jackson Showboat.
It's Just a shot of the Sternwheel on the General Jackson Showboat that operates on the Cumberland River out of Nashville.
The General Jackson was built by Jeffboat in Jeffersonville, Indiana and launched in 1985. Though built to resemble a vintage steam-powered riverboat, it is actually powered by diesel generators which power two 600 horsepower (450 kW) electric motors, which in turn propel a 24-foot-diameter (7.3 m), 36-ton sternwheel. The boat has a capacity of 1,200 passengers and 157 crew members. She is 274 feet (84 m) long (300 feet (91 m) with gangway extended), has a 63-foot-6-inch (19.35 m) beam (width), is 77 feet (23 m) tall with her folding smokestacks fully extended (the folding stacks are necessary because of low bridge clearances), and has a draft of 7 feet (2.1 m).
X-T1, 18-55mm Lens, 1/500th @ F5.6, ISO-200, Handheld.
General Jackson Sternwheel (1)-03088 by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr
for looking., 
George
It's Just a shot of the Sternwheel on the General Jackson Showboat that operates on the Cumberland River out of Nashville.
The General Jackson was built by Jeffboat in Jeffersonville, Indiana and launched in 1985. Though built to resemble a vintage steam-powered riverboat, it is actually powered by diesel generators which power two 600 horsepower (450 kW) electric motors, which in turn propel a 24-foot-diameter (7.3 m), 36-ton sternwheel. The boat has a capacity of 1,200 passengers and 157 crew members. She is 274 feet (84 m) long (300 feet (91 m) with gangway extended), has a 63-foot-6-inch (19.35 m) beam (width), is 77 feet (23 m) tall with her folding smokestacks fully extended (the folding stacks are necessary because of low bridge clearances), and has a draft of 7 feet (2.1 m).
X-T1, 18-55mm Lens, 1/500th @ F5.6, ISO-200, Handheld.
General Jackson Sternwheel (1)-03088 by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr for looking., George