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.
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Wikipedia says the Mountaineer began operating in 1932, but this brochure reveals it was a “new train” in 1923. Wikipedia also says the Mountaineer “carried 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. Continue reading
