The ''Winnipeg Limited'' was an overnight named passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway between

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and

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. It competed on the route with the overnight '' Winnipeger'' of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway ("Soo Line"), and the

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's unnamed daytime passenger train. The Great Northern Railway's ''Winnipeg Limited'' was a train that evolved into a streamliner rather than becoming streamlined all at once. The ''Winnipeg Limited'' carried neither an

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nor a

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but it did have a club car. A typical

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of the period used streamlined head end cars, 48-revenue seat leg-rest coaches handed down from the '' Western Star'', a ''Pass-''series 6-roomette, 5-double bedroom, 2-compartment

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, a ''Glacier-''series 16-duplex roomette, 4-double bedroom sleeping car both handed down from the ''Western Star''. A

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''Green''-series 6-section, 6-roomette, 4-double bedroom sleeping car was carried between St. Paul and Winnipeg nightly in the summer season that continued on to

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, in the '' Super Continental'' west of Winnipeg. The only two cars exclusive to the ''Winnipeg Limited'' were the two ''Club''-series cars rebuilt by Pullman in February, 1956, from ''Glacier''-series sleeping cars. These two ''Club''-series cars retained their 8-duplex roomettes at one end and two of the double bedrooms. The space formerly occupied by the other two bedrooms was replaced by a buffet, and where the remaining eight duplex roomettes had been became a 12-seat dinette and 12-seat lounge area. These two cars were numbered and named 1198 ''Manitoba Club'' and 1099 ''Winnipeg Club'' and were operated one per consist. With the addition of these cars to the ''Winnipeg Limited'' on March 1, 1956, the trains were streamlined with the following consists: Winnipeg Limited restaurant club observation car

Winnipeg Limited restaurant club observation car

Cars

First consist

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A diesel passenger cab unit *505 EMD E7A 2,000 hp diesel passenger cab unit *1102 baggage railway post office car *246 baggage express car *1131 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1127 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1133 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1198 ''Manitoba Club'' 8-duplex roomette 2-double bedroom buffet 12-seat dinette 12-seat lounge car *1376 ''Hart Pass'' 6-roomette 5-double bedroom 2-compartment sleeping car *1183 ''Hudson Glacier'' 16-duplex roomette 4-double bedroom sleeping car

Second consist

*507 EMD E7A 2,000 hp diesel passenger cab unit *502 EMD E7A 2,000 hp diesel passenger cab unit *1103 baggage 30-foot railway post office car *249 baggage express car *1129 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1121 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1126 48-revenue-seat leg-rest coach *1199 ''Winnipeg Club'' 8-duplex roomette 2-double bedroom buffet 12-seat dinette 12-seat lounge car *1383 ''Inuya Pass'' 6-roomette 5-double bedroom 2-compartment sleeping car *1184 ''Chaney Glacier'' 16-duplex roomette 4-double bedroom sleeping car

References

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Cars

First consist

Second consist

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