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The ''Winnipeg Limited'' was an overnight named passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway between St. Paul- Minneapolis and Winnipeg, Manitoba. It competed on the route with the overnight ''
Winnipeger
In October 1904 the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway (Soo Line) and Canadian Pacific Railway began overnight passenger service between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg, Manitoba. The train consisted of a mail and baggage cars, two c ...
'' of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway
The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (MStP&SSM) was a Class I railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Midwestern United States. Commonly known since its opening in 1884 as the Soo Line after the phonetic s ...
("Soo Line"), and the Northern Pacific Railway
The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly of land grants, whic ...
'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 observation car nor a dome car but it did have a club car. A typical consist 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 sleeping car
The sleeping car or sleeper (often ) is a railway passenger car (rail), passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
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, a ''Glacier-''series 16-duplex roomette, 4-double bedroom sleeping car both handed down from the ''Western Star''. A Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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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 Vancouver, British Columbia, in the ''Super Continental
The ''Super Continental'' was a transcontinental Canadian passenger train operated by the Canadian National Railway from 1955 until 1977, when Via Rail took over the train and ran it until it was cancelled in 1981. Service was restored in 1985 b ...
'' 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:
Cars
First consist
*504 EMD E7A 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 carSecond 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 carSee also
* List of named passenger trains of CanadaReferences
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