from TRAINS Magazine, April 1945: What's Become of -- New England's first two streamlined trains, the three-car, two-ended Comet of the New Haven and the three-car Zephyr-like unit of the Boston & Maine which used to run as the Flying Yankee, both developed too much business for their seating capacity and were transferred to lesser runs. When it was purchased in 1935 the B&M unit was put on the Flying Yankee's run between Boston and Portland, later extended to Bangor over the Maine Central. It built up so much traffic that its limited seating capacity, 132, was too small for this run and for the past three summers it has been renamed the Mountaineer and operated between Boston and the White Mountains. For two winters it operated on an abbreviated schedule between Boston and Portland, but again it built up too much traffic and this winter it was renamed the Cheshire and now runs between Boston and White River Junction, Vt. The Comet, which started life on the Boston-Providence run in 1935, suffered a similar fate. Its seating capacity was inadequate for the traffic it attracted on this potentially busy run and it is now operating in local shuttle service in the Braintree, Mass. area. -A. C. Kalmbach
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