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Parent company | Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway |
Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Reporting mark | SOO |
Locale | North Dakota to Chicago |
Dates of operation | 1883–1961 |
Successor | Soo Line Railroad, Canadian National Railway |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (MStP&SSM) (reporting mark SOO) 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[1] after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it was merged with several other major CP subsidiaries on January 1, 1961, to form the Soo Line Railroad.