New Train Chicago to Vancouver

A photo by Byron Harmon presented here yesterday showed a Soo Line observation car passing over a Canadian Pacific locomotive emerging from the lower spiral tunnel in the Canadian Rockies. The Soo Line car, I suggested, was part of the summer-only Mountaineer, which went from Chicago to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, from whence it operated as a second section of the Dominion.

Click image to download a 4.2-MB PDF of this brochure.

Wikipedia says the Mountaineer began operating in 1932, but this brochure reveals it was a “new train” in 1923. Wikipedia also says the Mountaineercarried exclusively sleeping cars but no coaches.” That may have been true later, but this 1923 brochure says it carried standard sleepers, tourist sleepers, and coaches.
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The Soo Line’s route from Chicago to the Twin Cities was longer than its competitors, so it was never a major player in that three-way race between the Burlington, St. Paul, and North Western. Time was less of an issue on a long-distance trip, so the Mountaineer took 13 hours to get from Chicago to St. Paul, then had a leisurely 45 minute layover in St. Paul (probably to remove cars that weren’t going all the way to Vancouver and to add a St. Paul to Banff car). By comparison, the St. Paul’s fastest train at the time took 9-1/2 hours from Chicago to St. Paul.

This brochure is from the Chung collection at the University of British Columbia. UBC’s scan was dark and the images were difficult to discern, so I brightened it up and restored the colors.


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New Train Chicago to Vancouver — 1 Comment

  1. A 1947 C&NW PTT has the Mountaineer operating during the summer over the C&NW between Chicago and St. Paul. It also shows that the train carried coaches with a change at St. Paul. Schedule was 8 hours and 15 minutes between Chicago and St. Paul.

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