Yankee Clipper (train)

The Yankee Clipper was a luxury train offering service between Boston and New York City. Early, it pulled by a Class I-4 Pacific engine and later led by Class I-5 Hudsons.^[1] All of its cars, including Club car, two Parlor cars, Dining car, and Sun Parlor Observation car, were Pullmans.^[2]

The Yankee Clipper in Stonington, Connecticut, in 1974. At that time, it was operated by Amtrak.

Its first ever stop was at Readville station on April 14, 1934.^[3] At that stop, it dropped off Irving and Murton Millen, two brothers who robbed a Needham, Massachusetts bank and shot two police officers, Francis Oliver Haddock and Forbes McLeod.^[3] Thousands came to see the brothers get off the train.^[3]