sentences:  In 1948, at the request of his friend Tom Greene, Way captained the 21-year-old "Delta Queen" from San Francisco to Pittsburgh.He wrote about the adventure of piloting the paddle wheeler down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River to Pittsburgh in "The Saga of the Delta Queen".Way continued to be an active writer, collector of steamboat and packet ship photographs, and preserver of the history of boats on inland waterways.