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St. Ignace, Michigan, was a port for railroad car ferries crossing the Straits of Michigan. The ferries Chief Wawatam and Saint Marie are long gone. The loading aprons have been there, un-used, for years. . In 2009, I saw this from the Huron Boardwalk: |
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And Doug Taylor reports that the St. Ignace apron support fell over August 3, 2011. Here is a stitch of some of his photos. I didn't make a perfect photo, but you get the idea that there is a mess. |
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The loading elevator in St. Ignace for the Chief Wawatam collapsed into the Bay August 3rd about 3:00 in the morning. In cooperation with the Historical Commission of St. Ignace we (private group) are putting together a board to restore the A frame loading apron, as the City is out of money for such projects. I'm donating my time to build the Website for the Fund Raising. We are asking you for permissions to use any of your photos of the Chief Wawatam for our Web Site. I also read that you have some better scans available? Could you let me know or send them to this e-mail. We are mostly interested in the A Frame Elevator pictures. Thanking You in Advance, Doug Taylor, Webmaster, 'Friends of The Chief Wawatam' |
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and people can check a link to the online archive of http://www.stignacenews.com/news/2011-08-11/Front_Page/For_Chief_Elevator_Rebuilding_Seems_Unlikely.html and you can copy and paste it, but being a news article I can't guarantee you will always get to the source. |
Link to a page showing my 2009 pictures of this area, St. Ignace Ferry Apron in 2009
Link to some newer scans of my old slides of Chief Wawatam in 1979 . I have older web pages of these, but these are larger scans. Some people have printed from my small scans of these slides years ago, but these are bigger files than what I had on my web page that I made in 2003.
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Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures
( the index page is now on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011. And I will have to also keep the Next Generation index up-to-date also )
This page was filmed and wrote in August 2011
