Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
Company | Defunct
1883 CE
to 1961 CE
The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad (reporting mark SOO) is a Class I railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Midwest U.S.
Commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it is merged with several other major CP subsidiaries on January 1, 1961 to form the Soo Line Railroad.
As time passes, more and more Soo Line equipment is being repainted into the Canadian Pacific's current paint scheme, slowly erasing the Soo's identity as a subsidiary railroad.In 1970 it reports 8249 million net ton-miles of revenue freight (and no passengers) on 4693 route-miles and 6104 track-miles operated at the end of the year.
