For a few hours, we watched the Chief cross the Straits.
Those were in the years that the Michigan Northern had favorable freight rates that encouraged the rail traffic.

People have printed some of these pictures from my first scans, but those were small files.
If you want prints for your own use, you could print from these.
If you want a 1.5 mb file size, contact me. See my e-address on my index page. If my address isn't current, try finding any new index pages with the name Bruce's Railroad Pictures. This page was wrote in 2011.
I don't expect any compensation for letting you use them for a good historical purpose.
If you feel philanthropic, donate something to the St. Ignace Historical Society.

Some of these scans seem a bit blue. The one with the Chief coming head-on has good colors like it really was. I have an 8x10 print made long ago of that, and the colors still look good and the scan matches. It was a Winter day, only 30 seconds of sunshine all the while, with occasional snow showers and a frosty haze over the water. I was using Ektachrome slide film, maybe ASA 160. Two were taken with a 3-X extender coupled to a 200mm zoom lense.
All were taken in the late afternoon and even after sunset.