{"id":25815,"date":"2024-04-08T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:36:54","slug":"new-hampshire-sells-flying-yankee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=25815","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Sells \u2018Flying Yankee\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Justin Franz\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Boston & Maine\u2019s Flying Yankee<\/em> is being sold by the State of New Hampshire to a non-profit organization that hopes to restore and run the historic train in the Mt. Washington Valley. On April 6, the Flying Yankee Association announced it had been selected by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to become the streamlined train\u2019s new caretaker following a comprehensive and competitive review process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are both honored and thrilled to be receiving this historic train from the State,\u201d said <\/span>Brian LaPlant, President of the FYA. \u201cThe Flying Yankee has languished for far too <\/span>long, and we look forward to preserving, relocating and restoring the train, thanks to the <\/span>State, as well as our friends, partners, and supporters that will help make this dream <\/span>become a reality. A beautiful piece of New England history has been saved today.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The non-profit expects to meet with state officials later this month to sort out the details and the transfer of ownership could happen as early as this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Flying Yankee was built by the Budd Company in 1935 and ran in New England for 22 years until it was retired in 1957. It was privately owned and displayed at the Edaville Railroad for 40 years until it was acquired by New Hampshire in 1997. Since then a non-profit group has been trying to restore the train, first at the Claremont & Concord and most recently at the Hobo Railroad. However, in recent years, those efforts have collapsed and little has happened with the train, only the third of its type built in North America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting in the spring of 2021, volunteers updated and filed all the required state and federal documents to bring the group back into good standing and established a new name, the Flying Yankee Association. Along with that came a brand new board of directors, including several members with business and management experience. The group\u2019s new leaders said that past decisions like only using contractors to restore the train hampered progress and now they plan on using a mix of contractors and volunteers to get it done. The Flying Yankee is presently in a \u201cpartially restored state.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The group has said in the past that they would like to relocate it to the Mt. Washington Valley for restoration and have already spoken to the Conway Scenic Railroad about the possibility of running it there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Updates will be posted to the group\u2019s website, <\/span>flyingyankee.org<\/span><\/a>, as well as its Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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