Alcona is a railway point and settlement in the town of

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, Canada. It has a

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, and is on the abandoned Graham Subdivision main line of the

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, between

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at the southeast and Superior Junction on the

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main line at the north; the next point on the line to the north is Superior Junction and to the southeast is Zarn. Ontario Highway 642 passes through the settlement.

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