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- The Dan'l Webster was a named train of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven Railroad) that traveled between Grand Central Terminal, New York, New York, and South Station, Boston, Massachusetts. The Dan'l Webster was an attempt by the New Haven to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company to its lightweight Train-X design. It was powered by two streamlined Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton RP-210 diesel-hydraulic locomotives (one on each end of the train), connected by multiple unit control, through the train. The train, introduced in 1957, consisted of nine, short, all-aluminum cars articulated together. The center car had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success. The train was retired in 1960, and was sold in 1964 to Jones Tours (owned by the Pickens Railway), for excursion service. After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotives were scrapped around 1970. (en)
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- The Dan'l Webster was a named train of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven Railroad) that traveled between Grand Central Terminal, New York, New York, and South Station, Boston, Massachusetts. The Dan'l Webster was an attempt by the New Haven to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The train was retired in 1960, and was sold in 1964 to Jones Tours (owned by the Pickens Railway), for excursion service. After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotives were scrapped around 1970. (en)
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