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| − | This summertime fast luxury train began in the late 1920s running from [[Halifax]] to [[Yarmouth]] | + | This summertime fast luxury "boat train" began in the late 1920s running from [[Halifax]] to [[Yarmouth]] on a special schedule to connect with New York steamships. It cut travel time from downtown Manhattan to Halifax to 32 hours, faster than any other train or steamship service. The New Yorker joined the long-established [[Flying Bluenose]] which served Boston steamers at Yarmouth. DAR locomotive [[DAR0502|No. 502]] was specially lettered "New Yorker" for this service. The New Yorker outlasted the Flying Bluenose and appears to have run until wartime cut into the American tourism market about 1942. |
The Yarmouth to Halifax eastbound New Yorker was [[Train No. 26]]. | The Yarmouth to Halifax eastbound New Yorker was [[Train No. 26]]. | ||
Revision as of 23:06, 29 December 2008
This summertime fast luxury "boat train" began in the late 1920s running from Halifax to Yarmouth on a special schedule to connect with New York steamships. It cut travel time from downtown Manhattan to Halifax to 32 hours, faster than any other train or steamship service. The New Yorker joined the long-established Flying Bluenose which served Boston steamers at Yarmouth. DAR locomotive No. 502 was specially lettered "New Yorker" for this service. The New Yorker outlasted the Flying Bluenose and appears to have run until wartime cut into the American tourism market about 1942.
The Yarmouth to Halifax eastbound New Yorker was Train No. 26.
The Halifax to Yarmouth westbound New Yorker was Train No. 25.
Gallery
The 1939 Timetable Introducing the New Yorker
References and Footnotes
- Gary Ness's Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Vol. II, page 8) Includes a photograph of the New Yorker at Kentville, circa 1940.
- Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, page 106.
