The Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada

The Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada by Terry Gainer
The Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 Railway and it’s famous Canada-USA tourist trains.
Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come int join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 18888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling and playing the field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition James J. Hill,
the infamous American railway barren.
The “little railway that could: grew to attain giant giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on western expansion of Great Northern Railway and viable, comprehensive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of American to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully completed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923, the Soo Mountaineer was launched, becoming the most famous and longest two-nation train journey in North America