New Yorker

This summertime fast luxury "boat train" began in 1928 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

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  Clipping of Locomotive No. 502 with the New Yorker at Kentville Station on its first day of operation, June 22, 1928.

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  No. 502 leading the New Yorker, Train No. 25 at Kentville on its first day of operation, June 222, 1928.

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  The 1929 Time Table Introducing the New Yorker

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  Cover of Highlights of Nova Scotia History showing the New Yorker passing Grand Pre.

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.