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‘S TUG MALCOLM and WILLOWGLEN St. Clair Rapids June 16, 1983 railroad fans, A 60-minute ade digital ding cassette tape of this Live Steam Whistle Blast is available at $7.50 through the Museum of Arts and History, 1115 Sixth Street, Port Huron, Michigan 48060. *** CSL's newly-reconverted 730-foot straight-decker WHITEFISH BAY arrived at Montreal on June lst with a 24,904 ton grain cargo, marking the passage of the Seaway's Billionth ton since its opening twenty-four years earlier. **** Algoma Central Marine's new 7350-foot self-unloader JOHN B. AIRD was christened at Thunder Bay in June 3rd ceremonies subdued by the deaths two days earlier of two shipyard workers aboard the new carrier. The pair were electrocuted while cleaning a ballast tank. The AIRD cleared the Lakehead on the 13th with 31,954 net tons of coal for delivery at Nanticoke, Ontario. **** The Canadian Soo-based tug W. J. IVAN PURVIS arrived at Thunder Bay on June 3rd with the Goderich grain storage barge LIONEL PARSONS a) HOWARD M. HANNA, JR. (1). The same tug returned on the 11th with another former Goderich barge, the D. B. WELDON a) JAY C. MORSE. Both units are slated for dismantling by Western Metals on the Kam River there at the Lakehead. An earlier arrival there for delight of abe Editor Photo scrapping, the barge R. G. SANDERSON, has already been substantially cut up by the breakers. **** The former Westdale self-unloader NORDALE was towed out of Toronto's Eastern Gap Ped the tugs JAMES E. MCGRATH and R. & L. NO. 1 in the early morning hours of June 5th enroute to the old Algoma Steel dock at Port Colborne where she will be scrapped by a consortium of three firms, presumably including Marine Salvage, Ltd. **** While details are incomplete, it would appear that the venerable Straits' rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM has again survived a deadline to her career. Funds have reportedly been secured to permit her drydocking and required repairs at Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay. ***#* Interlake's big WILLIAM J. DELANCEY has established yet another Great Lakes cargo record, 65,200 gross tons of iron ore pellets, when she sailed on May 11th from Escanaba for Indiana Harbor. **** Last December 31st, Cleveland-Cliffs' steamer CADILLAC was sold to Craig Maritime and their steamers WILLIS B. BOYER, CHAMPLAIN and WILLIAM P. SYNDER, JR., to American Bulk Shipping, both subsidiaries of Seaway Lines. On June 18th, all four of these steamers were observed at their Toledo moorings to have been stripped of their