[1] It competed on the route with the overnight Winnipeger of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste.

[5] Burlington Northern continued to operate the train as numbers 47 and 48, although they did not retain the name, with it informally being known as the "Winnipeg Connection".

A Canadian National Railway Green-series 6-section, 6-roomette, 4-double-bedroom sleeping car was carried between St. Paul and Winnipeg nightly in the summer season that continued on to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Super Continental west of Winnipeg.

The space formerly occupied by the other two bedrooms was replaced by a buffet, and where the remaining eight duplex roomettes had been became a 12-seat dinette and 12-seat lounge area.

With the addition of these cars to the Winnipeg Limited on March 1, 1956, the trains were streamlined with the following consists: