Not sure where
the
Speed boat heading for
Coney
Not sure what boat this is.
Queen is in this
image.
The first card shows the Island Queen on one of its excursion trips that it took during the off-season. You can see smaller boats that the passengers are getting ready to launch to take them home.
DISEMBARKING PASSENGERS AT CONEY ISLAND LANDING
Same Image - Different Interpretations
The wood planking you see were laid across the shallow mud from the permanent dock to the boat. In the summertime when the river was low the boats could not get close to the dock.
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The Princess. Train on Kentucky side
The Princess loading
passengers
The 3rd RPPC was used to make the 2nd card. You can tell the Princess, in the last postcard above, is at Coney Island because of the background on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. They must be loading up for the trip back to Cincinnati because the passengers on board would be rushing the gangplank if it had just arrived in this 1907 image.
Taken same day. Train can be seen in 2nd card
The small boat seen on the left edge of the right hand card above shows the Coney Island passenger ferry that shuttled people from Campbell County in Kentucky to Coney. This boat eventually became part of the fleet of BB Riverboats, as a workboat. In the 1970s, she was refurbished for passenger ferry service on weekends between Rising Sun, Indiana, and Rabbit Hash, Kentucky under the name Rabbit Transit Authority.
The entrance gate you see in the 2nd card above had been a familiar sight for 30 years. In 1925 a new entrance was erected. On one end was a lighthouse (watchtower) with a beacon light in the tower's cupola to aid boats arriving and departing at night.
TO SEE MORE CONEY ISLAND
CARDS 
