Dan'l Webster (train)
The Dan'l Webster was a named train of the
Under Patrick McGinnis, the New Haven ordered three experimental high-speed trainsets in 1955: the Dan'l Webster, the John Quincy Adams, and the Roger Williams. All had interiors and exterior styling designed by architect Marcel Breuer as part of the new visual identity created by Knoll Associates.[2]
The Dan'l Webster, introduced in 1957,
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.[6][7]
Notes
- ^ Associated Press (July 14, 1957). "Futuristic Train Slow in Arriving". Miami Sunday News. Retrieved December 28, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Frattasio, Marc J. (2023). "Marcel Breuer's Forgotten Articulated Commuter Car Project". Shoreliner. Vol. 44, no. 4. pp. 28–39.
- ^ "Dan'l Webster and the Xplorer". Streamliner Memories. March 4, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ISBN 1-883089-28-X.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://yardlimit.railfan.net/baldwindiesels/rp210/
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
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References
- Kirkland, John F. (November 1994). The Diesel Builders Volume 3: Baldwin Locomotive Works. Interurban Press. ISBN 0-916374-93-9.
- Dolzall, Gary W.; Dolzall, Stephen F. (1984). Diesels From Eddystone: The story of Baldwin Diesel Locomotives. Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-052-3.
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