Flying Yankee

The Flying Yankee is a diesel-electric streamliner that the Budd Company built in 1935 for the Boston and Maine Railroad, with mechanical and electrical equipment from Electro-Motive Corporation. It was the third streamliner in North America after the Union Pacific M-10000 and the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr, and was a near clone of the latter, except that it dropped the baggage and mail space to seat 142 people in three articulated cars. The welded stainless steel train used Budd patented construction, an eight-cylinder Winton 201-A diesel driving a generator, air conditioning throughout and tray meals from a galley. It entered service on 1 April 1935 and covered 750 miles a day between Boston, Portland and Bangor, later running as the Cheshire, Minute Man, Mountaineer and Business Man. It was retired in 1957 and is now being restored at Conway, New Hampshire.