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The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad was a Class I railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Midwest United States. Commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it was merged with several other major CP subsidiaries on January 1, 1961 to form the Soo Line Railroad. As time passes, more and more Soo Line equipment is being repainted into the Canadian Pacific's current paint scheme, slowly erasing the Soo's identity as a subsidiary railroad. In 1970 it reported 8249 million net ton-miles of revenue freight (and no passengers) on 4693 route-miles and 6104 track-miles operated at the end of the year. ==Passenger service== The Soo Line was never a major carrier of passenger traffic since its route between Chicago and Minneapolis was much longer than the competing Milwaukee Road, Chicago and North Western and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad railroads. The Soo Line also had no direct access to Milwaukee. The primary trains operated by the Soo were: * ''The Laker'' which operated an overnight service from Chicago's Grand Central Station to Duluth–Superior with a portion to Minneapolis–St. Paul. An additional portion served Ashland, Wisconsin until January 1959. The Laker was discontinued completely on January 15, 1965. * ''The Winnipeger'' which operated an overnight Minneapolis–St. Paul to Winnipeg, Manitoba service. It was discontinued in March 1967.〔Abbey (1984) p.99〕 * A Minneapolis–St. Paul to western Canada service. During the 1920s and 1930s the Soo Line operated the ''Soo-Pacific'', a summer only Chicago to Vancouver service with the Canadian Pacific Railway. This later became ''The Mountaineer'', which was then reduced to Minneapolis–St. Paul to Vancouver, before being discontinued in early August 1960. The Mountaineer was a summer season only train, that carried exclusively sleeping cars but no coaches.〔Abbey (1984) p.97〕 During the non-summer months, the train ran as the ''Soo-Dominion'' from Minneapolis–St. Paul to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where it was combined into Canadian Pacific Railway's ''The Dominion'' transcontinental passenger train. It was cut back to a Saint Paul to Portal, North Dakota run after CP discontinued passenger service to Portal at the end of 1960,〔 before being discontinued entirely in December 1963.〔 * A Minneapolis–St. Paul to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan overnight train. Discontinued March 1959. Additionally, local trains served Chicago to Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth–Superior to Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth to Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and some summer-only services which relieved ''The Mountaineer'' of the local work along its route. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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