NOTE for No. 142 at Scarboro Beach: "Stops
Mondays only, July 6th to August 31st, inclusive; and Tuesday,
September 8 [1936]."
NOTE for No. 142 at Old Orchard Beach:
"Stops beginning June 29th [1936]."
(Boston & Maine
Notes)
Flying
Yankee—All seats reserved. Capacity limited. Apply to
ticket agents.
All tickets honored, except those for restricted excursions. No baggage
service.
BOSTON
AND MAINE RAILROAD
LINE OF THE MINUTE MAN |
"FLYING
YANKEE"
STREAMLINED TRAIN |
"THE
YANKEE"
NO STOP TRAIN |
DAILY,
EXCEPT SUNDAY, IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
BOSTON-PORTLAND AND BANGOR |
| THROUGH CAR
SERVICE—Portland Division |
FROM BOSTON.
Flying Yankee. Streamlined Train. Daily, except
Sunday.
Boston to Portland No. 265 and Bangor No. 15.
Observation Lounge...12 individual seats.
Buffet Service...AIR-CONDITIONED.
All seats reserved. Capacity limited. Apply to
ticket agents. All tickets honored, except those for restricted
excursions.
No baggage service. |
TO BOSTON.
Flying Yankee. Streamlined Train. Daily, except
Sunday.
Bangor No. 16 and Portland to Boston No. 142.
Observation Lounge...12 individual seats.
Buffet Service...AIR-CONDITIONED.
All seats reserved. Capacity limited. Apply to
ticket agents. All tickets honored, except those for restricted
excursions.
No baggage service. |
(Maine Central Notes)
Flying Yankee. Air Conditioned, Streamlined Train. Runs
via Lewiston.
Flying Yankee—Streamlined Train—All seats
reserved. Capacity limited. Apply to ticket agent. All tickets honored,
except those for restricted excursions. No baggage service.
THROUGH
CAR SERVICE
Train Nos. 15 and 16 FLYING YANKEE. Streamlined Train
Air-Conditioned. Daily, except Sunday. Between Boston and Bangor.
Buffet Service—Observation Section (12 Seats). All seats reserved.
Capacity limited. Apply to ticket agent. All tickets honored, except
those for restricted excursions. No baggage service.
The Budd Company's first venture into the streamliner business was with the wildly successful Pioneer Zephyr. This was their second. The Flying Yankee of 1935 was essentially similar to its older sibling, with the exception that the baggage/mail space was eliminated and a small galley preparing meals on trays to be served at passengers' seats replaced the buffet area in order to increase passenger capacity. The train as delivered seated 142 passengers, including 12 seats in the observation solarium at the tail end of the last car.
The Boston & Maine and Maine Central put this new trainset into service on April 1, 1935. The itinerary ran from Portland, ME to Boston to Bangor to Boston and back to Portland in the wee hours of the morning for more than 730 miles of running a day, six days a week (Sundays were a down day for maintenance). The train did not carry checked baggage (after all, it had no baggage space), but there were several other trains a day along this stretch of railroad in which Flying Yankee passengers' baggage could ride, if they could tolerate a few hours delay.