ON 222598. She was originally the Southern Pacific Railway ferry Shasta, built by the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard at San Francisco about 1922. After bridges killed business on SF Bay Shasta was bought by Capt. Peabody's Black Ball Line and went to work on Puget Sound. She worked for Washington State Ferries after they bought out Capt. Peabody until 1958 when she was sold to interests on the Columbia River. Sometime later she was renamed River Queen and bacame a restaurant in Portland until 1995. Now she's rotting away on a remote stretch of the Columbia River across from Kalama, Washington. (July 25, 2005)

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