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Chief Wawatam 1911 - Current

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Chief Wawatam Continued

Pilot House February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

View of interior stairway to Pilot House. February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

View of Passenger Deck passageway. February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Engine Room July 1968 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Engine Room July 1968 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Engine Room July 1968 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Steering gear February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Engine Room gauges February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Fireman Doug Litzner feeding the boilers February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Loading operation as seen from the Pilot House (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Looking forward at aft side of superstructure on passenger deck February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Looking aft along the port side February 1969 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Postcard view (From the Martin Bliss collection)

Arriving at dock (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Sequence showing the "Chief" arriving February 1971 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

February 1971 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

February 1971 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

February 1971 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Sequence showing a departure October 1972 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Steering to starboard (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Stern View (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Underway on another crossing (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Loading train cars October 1972 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Backing away from dock October 1972 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

At dock 1970's (Photo by Fred Bultman IV from the Fred Bultman V collection)

In dry-dock at Sturgeon Bay, WI in 1977. Captain Roderick Graham standing in front of bow propeller (Photo by Robert T. Tamlyn)

After fire room showing Boiler #6 just after an annual Coast Guard inspection. (Photo by Robert T. Tamlyn)

In dry-dock at Sturgeon Bay, WI 1977. Photo taken from M/V Belle River shortly before commissioning (Photo by Robert T. Tamlyn)

At dock March 1977 (From the Rich Weiss collection)

Arriving at dock August 1978 (Photo by Martin Bliss)

Collection of 80 detail images taken onboard the Chief Wawatam in the mid 1970's (Photos by Frank Crevier from the Dave Marcoux collection)

Backing away from the Mackinaw City Dock July 11, 1977. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Still backing. At least in later years, the boat backed a long ways out on the Mackinaw City side. July 11,1977. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Postcard view (From the Violet Bostwick collection)

Approaching the Mackinaw City dock on March 13,1978. This amount of ice barely slowed the boat. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Stern view at Mackinaw City dock, March 13,1978. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Life Ring on car deck, March 13, 1978. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Car deck on March 13,1978. Hopper car contained coal for boat. Coal bunkers were directly below. (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

Soo Line GP38-2 4410 is turned on the St. Ignace turntable while the Chief waits in the background. Air from the locomotive was used to push the turntable with an air cylinder. August 23,1979 (Photo by Glendon Hynes)

   
       
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