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Station: Strongs, Michigan |
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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum |
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Strongs, MI. A junction with the Michigan Forest Products/Cadillac-Soo Lumber Company logging railroad. The Cadillac Lumbe and Chemical Company (1923-1930) merged with the Richardson-Avery Company to form the Cadillac Soo Lumber Company in 1930. This logging branch goes northwest leaving the main line just west of Salt Point Road. The Turner sawmill was located on a short spur off this logging branch. A mobile home currently occupies the approximate site of the switch to the Cadillac-Soo Lumber Company railroad (2004). Logging locomotives were stored on this branch adjacent to the DSS&A main line after Cadillac-Soo Lumber Company abandoned its logging railroad operations and shifted completely to logging trucks in 1935/36. Russell Johnson, who was raised in a Cadillac-Soo lumber camp, remembers the locomotives being cut up and sold for scrap. The Cadillac-Soo Lumber Company donated one of its Shay locomotives to the City of Cadillac. The Shay locomotive is on statis display in a park just west of downtown Cadillac and east of the TSBY (ex-Ann Arbor) railroad tracks. [MIRX8]
MP 32.2 - "Y" Switch at Strongs. Rudy Johnson remembers playing on this leg of the "Y" that went southeast toward the "Red" saw mill after the spur was abandoned. The southterminal lead of the "Y" continued south as a logging railroad branch. [MIRX8] |
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