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Historical Perspective
Featured Lake Boat:

Chief Wawatam 1911 - Current

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Chief Wawatam Continued
Trip across the Straits in January 1979 (Photos by Roger LeLievre)

Loading train cars onto Chief Wawatam (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Seagate raised (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Loading the trains view from pilot house (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Captain Roderick Graham (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Engineer Al Thibault (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Working the coal bunker (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Fireman Jim McNamee feeding coal to the boilers (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Fireman Jim McNamee feeding coal to the boilers (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Fireman Jim McNamee hard at work firing the "Chief" (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Fireman Jim McNamee takes a well deserved break (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Engine room break (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Coal smoke billowing out the stacks (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Ice track across the Straits (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Mate Harold Taylor on watch (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Mate Harold Taylor (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Wheelsman steering the course (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Pilot House view (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Port side passenger deck view looking aft (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Port side lifeboat (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Port side lifeboat looking forward (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Car deck and tracks (Photo by Roger LeLievre)

Backing away from Mackinaw City, MI dock in 1976 (Photo by Mark Cowles from Boatnerd archives)

   
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