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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The First and Last Soo Line Passenger Trains
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:02:59
	Publish Date:		2019-04-17 05:00:00
	Description:		For this week's A Northwoods Moment in History , Gary Entz tells us about the Soo Line Passenger Trains. The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, more commonly known as the Soo Line, formed in 1884 and became a significant part of Northwoods history. Although the company was primarily a freight railroad and was never one of the nation’s great passenger railroads. It nonetheless provided passenger service to the Northwoods with a branch of its Laker passenger train. The Soo Line reached Rhinelander in 1886 and pushed on rapidly to Sault Ste. Marie, reaching that terminus late in 1887. In Rhinelander the Soo Line built a depot, water tank, and roundhouse east of Thayer Street. The Soo Line offered Northwoods residents passenger service to Minneapolis-St. Paul with connections available to Chicago. The first passenger train pulled in to Rhinelander from Minneapolis at 3:00 pm on November 23, 1886. It was a special train of two locomotives pulling six Pullman cars and a
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