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The Gull
The ''Gull'' was an international passenger train between Boston and Halifax. Travel time was approximately 24 hours. Westbound trains left Halifax shortly after breakfast and crossed the Canada – United States border in the late evening, as eastbound trains were leaving Boston's North Station to cross the border about dawn. Travel was over the Boston and Maine Railroad from Boston to Portland, Maine, then over the Maine Central Railroad to the border between Vanceboro, Maine and Saint Croix, New Brunswick, then over the Canadian Pacific Railway to Saint John, New Brunswick, and over the Canadian National Railway to Halifax.〔National Railway Publication Company ''Official Guide'' (July, 1954)〕
==Equipment==
Through sleeping cars between Boston and Halifax were the core of service initiated 2 March 1930.〔Lowe, J. Norman ''Canadian National in the East'' volume 3 (1985) Calgary Group of the British Railway Modellers of North America ISBN 0-919487-14-9〕 Through coaches operated between Boston and Saint John. Canadian National operated through coaches between Saint John and Halifax with a dining car between Halifax and Moncton, New Brunswick, and a buffet car between Moncton and Saint John. Through sleeping cars were carried between Boston and Bangor, Maine, and transferred to connecting trains over the Maine Central between Bangor and Calais, Maine, and over the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad between Bangor and Van Buren, Maine. Connecting Bangor & Aroostook trains carried through coaches between Boston and Van Buren and a buffet car between Bangor and Van Buren.〔
The ''Gull'' carried a diverse assortment of baggage cars, express cars, and mail cars from the five railroads offering through service.〔Jones, Robert Willoughby ''Boston and Maine'' (1991) Trans-Anglo Books ISBN 0-87046-101-X p.91〕 These were often conventional heavyweight cars, but included Bangor & Aroostook open-platform, steel-underframe wood baggage cars in the years before World War II,〔Liljestrand & Sweetland ''Passenger Cars of New England'' volume 2 (2000) The Railroad Press ISBN 0-9657709-8-2 pp.24-25〕 and Boston & Maine converted troop sleeper baggage cars after the war. Boston received fish from the Maritimes in express reefers and milk from Newport, Maine in Pfaudler milk cars leased to HP Hood. The train often included Boston & Maine lightweight ''American Flyer'' coaches built in the 1930s by Pullman Company's Osgood Bradley Car Company plant in Worcester, Massachusetts. Stainless steel coaches started appearing in the train after a joint order by Maine Central and Boston & Maine in 1947. Stainless steel sleeping cars were delivered to Bangor & Aroostook and Boston & Maine in 1954.〔Sweetland & Horsley ''Northern New England Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment'' (1994) Morning Sun Books p.61,69&79〕 The train was typically pulled by 4-6-2 steam locomotives; although Maine Central and Boston & Maine EMD E7s were used in the United States after World War II.〔Albert & Melvin ''New England Diesels'' (1975) Interstae Book Manufacturing ISBN 0-916160-01-7 pp.39&206〕
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