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With its introduction to the United States in the 1830s the railroad train was immediately heralded as the fastest method of transportation, yet even from the beginning the railroad companies were constantly seeking ways to increase the speed of their trains, pushing them to transport passengers and freight to their destinations in the shortest time possible. The New Haven Railroad’s high speed regular service trains began in the 1890s with the Limited Express and the Air Line Limited, and by 1930 the Yankee Clipper traveled from New York City to Boston in four hours and 45 minutes.
By the 1930s, with the rise of transportation alternatives including busses, trucks and privately owned automobiles, the railroad industry turned to a new type of high-speed technology - the light-weight, streamlined diesel train, inspired by aerodynamic Art Deco design.
The New Haven Railroad’s streamlined train was Comet, which made its debut in April 1935 to serve as a commuter link between Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, with its “44 miles in 44 minutes” schedule. Comet was a three car double-ended diesel-electric articulated train that could operate in both directions, with diesel power plants at both ends of the train, using two six-cylinder 400 horsepower diesel engines built by Westinghouse. It could comfortably travel at 100 miles per hour. This video tells the story of Comet and the New Haven Railroad’s only streamlined train of the 1930s.
This video is part of the digital exhibition 25 for 25: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting, presented by the Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library.
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