Detroit & Mackinac RS-2 #468 is seen loading or unloading the ferry Chief Wawatam car ferry at Mackinaw City, Michigan on July 14, 1977. Here is additional information from Wikipedia: "Chief ... (more)

The railroad ferry "Chief Wawatam" has arrived at Mackinaw City and is ready to unload on March 28th (my birthday!) of 1972. The Chief ran between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City and was ul... (more)

Formerly used for hauling timber in the northwest, No. 2 sits in the yard at Mackinaw City waiting to be taken to the BOYNE CITY RR shops for a complete overhaul before assignment to freight and ... (more)

One day we discovered this locomotive sitting in the yard at Mackinaw City. It had recently crossed the Straits of Mackinac aboard the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM. It had come all the way from the ... (more)

The stern of the rail barge MANISTEE is almost completely into the slip where its rails will become attached to those of the NEW YORK CENTRAL so that the freight cars can be unloaded and switched ... (more)

Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (more)

During the summer and fall of 1965, while the CHIEF WAWATAM, the regular rail ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, Michigan was in Manitowoc, Wisonsin for a boiler rebuild, the rail barge M... (more)

When NYC night trains #202 and #207 between Detroit and Mackinaw City were discontinued they were replaced by Budd RDC 3 cars which ran in the daytime. Here we see the morning Bee Liner about to ... (more)

The night train from Detroit is ending its run in Mackinaw City behind a Lima Mohawk. As you can tell by the cars visible in the photo, train 207 carried a large amount of Mail and Express to the ... (more)

The Pennsy's summer train, THE NORTHERN ARROW, has just arrived at its destination, Mackinaw City. Michigan with sections from St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. It is 1961, the last year of PRR p... (more)

it is late afternoon and the Pennsy's summer time NORTHERN ARROW with sections headed for Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago via Fort Wayne has backed out onto the railroad dock to pick up passenge... (more)

This shows the TIMBERLINER, a summer weekend train which would leave Detroit late on Friday afternoon, arriving at Mackinaw City around midnight. It would return to Detroit late Sunday afternoon.... (more)

The NORTHERN ARROW was made up of sections from Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. It operated during the summer months to bring tourists and cottage owners to northern Michigan resorts. Its dest... (more)

D&M 4610 had worked its way up from Cheboygan and is backing to the ferry slip as it awaits the arrival of the Chief Wawatum from St. Ignace. Nearby a MN ex- Southern RS-3 is waiting to get southb... (more)

Michigan Northern started with a couple RS-3's and aquired an eclectic group of power over the years including more RS-3's, RS-2's, Baldwin RS-12's and even the pair of RF-16 Sharks. All those old... (more)