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. All of its cars, including Club car, two Parlor cars, Dining car, and Sun Parlor Observation car, were Pullmans.

Its first ever stop was at Readville station on April 14, 1934. 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. Thousands came to see the brothers get off the train.

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Passenger trains of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Passenger rail transportation in Massachusetts
Passenger rail transportation in Rhode Island
Passenger rail transportation in Connecticut
Passenger rail transportation in New York (state)