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*,*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.

## Lionel Model

Lionel released the Flying Yankee around the same time as the real engine.

It comes in 3 color versions included: Chrome and Black, Chromoe and Gray, and the Silver and Red version.

## Appearances

* Toy Train
* The Real Locomotive

* **Lionel the Movie I (1997 special edition version)**
* **The History of Lionel Trains**
* **Great Toy Train Layouts of America Part 3**
* **I Love Toy Trains 1**
* **Toy Train Revue 8**
* **I Love Toy Trains 2** (1997 version)
* **I Love Toy Trains 3** (1997 version)
* **Toy Train Revue 12**
* **A Lionel Christmas**
* **Great Lionel Layouts 1**
* **Toy Trains and Christmas part 1**
* **I Love Toy Trains 4**
* **Toy Trains and Christmas part 3**
* **A Century of Lionel Trains**
* **Lionel Legends 2: The Hudson**
* **I Love Toy Trains 10**
* **Toy Train Christmas Memories**
* **I Love Toy Trains The Final Show**
* **Baby Loves Trains**
* **John Deere Heaven**
* **Lionel Nation 1**
* **Tinplate Legends in Action 1**
* **Toy Train Revue 1**

* **The History of Lionel Trains**

## Gallery

### Toy Train Locomotive

Flying yankee painted in John Deere Colors