Flying Yankee

The Flying Yankee was a diesel-electric streamliner built in 1935 for the Maine Central Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad by Budd Company and with mechanical and electrical equipment from Electro-Motive Corporation.
It was also the name of a passenger train, the third streamliner train in North America after the Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr; the Flying Yankee was, in fact, a virtual clone of the latter, except that it dispensed with the baggage/mail space to seat 142 in three articulated cars.
Its daily route served began in Portland, Maine, then to Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a return to Portland and continuing to Bangor, Maine, returning through Portland to Boston and finally returning to Portland late in the day, a distance of 750 miles per day.
Later on, as newer equipment replaced it on one route, it would be switched to other routes, bearing the names The Cheshire, The Minuteman, The Mountaineer, and The Business Man. As railroad passenger ridership declined in the 1950s the Yankee was also getting old, and thus the trainset, as The Minuteman, was retired, running its last on May 7, 1957.
It ceased passenger service in 1957 and the railroad donated the trainset to the Edaville Railroad tourist/museum operation in Carver, Massachusetts. The train remained on static display there for about 35 years until it was moved in 1993 to Glen, New Hampshire, after being purchased by Bob Morrell, then owner of Story Land.
In 1997, the train was moved to the Claremont Concord Railroad's shops in Claremont, New Hampshire, for a restoration after it was purchased by the state of New Hampshire. By 2004, the major structural restoration had been completed, and detailed restoration of components is ongoing with the goal of restoring the train completely to running condition. The train was moved on August 10, 2005, to the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, New Hampshire. 
There were plans to move it to Concord, New Hampshire, site of a former Boston & Maine railyard, but that fell through in 2017. The state hopes to open the train to public viewing in Lincoln but in 2023, it's stored at the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, New Hampshire awaiting restoration. As of 2024 it's now Stored at the Conway Scenic Railroad in North Conway, New Hampshire awaiting restoration.
==Trivia==
*The train was renamed "The Mountaineer" when it was given another route in the 1940s.
*During World War II the trainset could simply not keep up with passenger demands and as such was switched to a different routing between Boston and Littleton, New Hampshire.
*As of 2020 the train is under restoration to operating condition. The restoration is still taking place at the Hobo Scenic Railroad in Lincoln NH.
*The locomotive is a BM-MEC 6000.
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