The new service Twin Cities to Spokane, will be inaugurated June 17, 1907, with trains de Luxe on fast schedule. The route is Soo Line to Portal, Canadian Pacific Railway via the Crow's Nest Pass route through the Kootenay to Kingsgate (on the boundary), thence South and West over the line of the Spokane International to Spokane.

The trains used in this service will be composed of the finest of day coaches, tourist sleeping cars, dining cars, first class sleepers, compartment cars and buffet library observations cars that money can buy, even in this age of luxurious rolling stock. All trains will be solidly vestibuled throughout and will be electric lighted, electric reading lights in berths being a feature.