Nostalgia & History > Timetable Tuesday - Soo Line 3/26/1961

SOO public TT, effective March 26th, 1961. Includes index to stations, connecting services, fare tables, traffic dept. officials, and traffic dept. reps.

1) Cover.

2) Index to stations.

3) Tables 1 & 2: service to western Canada, and the Winnipeger).

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Next Three:

4) Tables 3, 4 & 5: the Laker, Chicago-Twin Cities service, and Chicago-Calumet service.

5) Tables 6, 7, 7-A & 7-B: Twin Cities-Portal service, Rhinelander-Gladstone service, Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie service, and Argonne-Neenah service.

6) Tables 8, 9 & 10: Twin Cities-Duluth service, Superior-Glenwood service, and Hankinson-Bismarck service.

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Next Three:

7) Tables 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19: Drake-Bismarck, Thief River Falls-Kenmare, Max-New Town, Wishek-Pollock, Fordville-Drake, Flaxton-Whitetail, CP connecting service at Winnipeg to Kenora, CP connecting service at Winnipeg to Vancouver, and Duluth-Fort Frances.

8) Soo Line map - "the new SOO LINE RAILROAD"

9) Tables 20, 21, 22 & 23: connecting services.

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Last Three:

10) Fare tables and passenger info. Tables are for Banff-Winnipeg and Banff-Waukesha.

11) More fare tables, for Alexandria-Wyndmere.

12) Traffic dept. officials and reps.



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Another public timetable gem -- thanks. Soo Line timetables are not very commonly collected or displayed. Neat to see one from this era.

I believe that's the last passenger, timetable we published.

Exprail

exprail Wrote:
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> I believe that's the last passenger, timetable we
> published.

I posted one the other week which was effective June 25th, 1961. It only had the Soo-Dominion (table 1), Twin Cities-Portal (table 2), the Laker (3), Chicago-Twin Cities (4), Chicago-Calumet (6), and the Winnipeger (7).

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5097041



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And I just now noticed that I had typed in Thursday instead of Tuesday, silly me, now corrected.

I would think Waukesha would be a much better traffic generator today, than back in 1961.
That's something that they put all the other railroad schedules in for the Minneapolis-Chicago corridor!
Kenora has Devil's Gap, ON as another name.  I hadn't seen that before.
The Laker would probably do very well today, if it was still running.