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Station:  Raco, Michigan

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  • (19.9 miles from Sault Ste. Marie).  Duff switch.  [CB/MIHX8]

  • (20.03 miles from Sault Ste. Marie).  Raco.  This was a junction with the Richardson-Avery Lumber Company/Deranson Lumber Company standard gauge logging radio.  R.A.CO. is the product of the combination of the first letters of Richard, Avery and Co.  Richardson-Avery merged wtih the Cadillac Lumber & Chemical Company to form the Cadillac-Soo Lumber Company in 1930.  [CB/MIHX8]

  • The last steam locomotives used to haul Michigan logs is reported to have been a Baldwin locomotive that hauled logs from the forests adjacent to RACO to the mill at Algonquin just west of Sault Ste. Marie on the South Shore.  [CB/MIHX8]