The Viking was a named train of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
It operated between Chicago and Saint Paul, via Madison, Wisconsin, with a final stop in Minneapolis.
It was a daylight train, scheduled to depart eastbound and westbound in the morning and arrive at the destination in the evening.
[3] The Viking, Victory, and the North Western Limited made stops at more stations than the Twin Cities 400, but not as many as the overnight North Western Mail train, that stopped at every local station.
It ran to Madison on the Northwestern line out of Chicago via Harvard, Illinois and Evansville, Wisconsin.