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The Minute Man was a passenger train operated by the Boston and Maine Railroad between Boston, Massachusetts, and Troy, New York. It was the railroad's flagship train on the Fitchburg Division and offered through cars with the New York Central Railroad for service to points west. The Minute Man was introduced in 1926 and discontinued in 1958.
History
The train debuted on May 15, 1926., with a travel time of about five hours between Boston and Troy. It connected with the Lake Shore Limited of the New York Central Railroad at Albany. The train quickly attracted new ridership to the route. Serving as the flagship train on the Fitchburg Division, B&M management promoted the train's convenience to reach Chicago without having to change stations in Boston. (Unlike Boston and Albany Railroad trains, which used South Station, the Minute Man connected with other B&M service at North Station.) The train included Pullman sleeping and parlor cars, coach cars, and dining cars. Parlor car passengers could use an open-platform observation car until World War II.
The through sleeper exchanged with the New York Central ended on December 1, 1946. Eastbound scheduling issues and low patronage led the B&M to drop the service. The new schedule allowed for improved local service along the line. The Minute Man was originally a conventional, locomotive-hauled train using heavyweight and American Flyer coaches. The Flying Yankee trainset was used on the route from April 1952 to April 1955. Budd Rail Diesel Cars, dubbed Highliners by the B&M, replaced that trainset for a few weeks until it was permanently replaced in December 1956. The B&M discontinued service west of Williamstown, with the Minute Man replaced by an unnamed train on the remaining portion. Intercity service was cut back to Greenfield later than year and to Fitchburg in 1960, leaving only commuter service on the route.
Amtrak used the Minute Man name for a Boston–Philadelphia train from June 11, 1972, to April 29, 1973, and a Boston–Washington train from 1973 to 1995.
References
Minute-Man (Jack Weston) is a superhero appearing in comics published Fawcett Comics and later DC Comics.
Publication history
Named after the minutemen of the American Revolution and sporting a costume inspired by the American flag, he was originally published by Fawcett Comics in Master Comics #11-49 (February 1941 - April 1944). He also had his own self-titled comic for three issues published from summer 1941 to spring 1942.
He the second of a line of patriotic heroes from the Golden Age of Comics; preceded by MLJs The Shield in January of 1940 and followed by Timely’s Captain America in March of 1941.
Along with other Fawcett characters, he was purchased by DC Comics and made brief appearances in the Shazam! comics in 1976, and the Power of Shazam! comic in 1995 and 1996.
Fictional character biography
During World War II, Jack Weston is an army private in prime physical condition who dons a patriotic costume and becomes the Minute-Man, a "One Man Army" who combats enemy agents. His double identity is known to his superior officer, General Milton, who sends the Minute-Man on unsanctioned missions behind enemy lines. Minute-Man is a member of a group of local Fawcett City heroes, the Crime Crusaders Club.
According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, "his nemesis is the femme fatale Illyria, Queen of the Spies, but he also fights rebellious Haitian natives, robot spies, ten foot tall Nazi monsters, the Black Poet, agents of the Black Dragon Society, the evil Toymaker, mad scientists, mummies, vampires, and head hunters".
Prior to DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries, Minute-Man was said to exist on the parallel Earth-S, home of the Fawcett heroes. He makes his first appearance in Shazam! when he rescues Billy from Mr. Mind and the Rainbow Squad, who have captured and gagged him. Cap feels unable to fight females, so Minute-Man shows him he can do it, inspiring Cap to beat the Squad, and reveal that its leader, Mr. Wonderful, is really his old enemy, the super-intelligent alien worm Mr. Mind. In this incarnation, the character was also a member of the Squadron of Justice, a team of Fawcett characters who joined forces with the Justice League and Justice Society. He was incorporated into the mainstream DC Universe in the wake of the Crisis.
In the new timeline, Weston defends Fawcett City for a time following the war with his fellow heroes. Eventually retiring from costumed heroism, he is shown to have become a government agent in the Power of Shazam! series, as an occasional ally to Captain Marvel.
= Death
=In Justice Society of America (vol.3) #3, Jack Weston (mistakenly referred to as Jack Burton), his children and grandchildren are killed in their sleep by an unknown assassin in their home in Clearwater, Florida. Minute-Man was one of three patriotic superhero bloodlines destroyed by the efforts of Vandal Savage, along with the bloodlines of Mr. America, Commander Steel and General Glory. Savage wished to stop the prevalence of relatives taking on the heroic identities and/or powers of their loved ones.
= Infinite Frontier
=A new version of Minute-Man, named Terry, in the series One-Star Squadron. He has super strength and invulnerability gained from the vitamin Miraclo.
Reception
In American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944, Kurt Mitchell and Roy Thomas discussed the merits of the early Minute-Man stories: "The strip began as a lazy imitation of Captain America: given a top-secret commission to ferret out and smash subversive threats to the nation as the patriotically garbed Minute-Man, Jack Weston posed as an ordinary private as cover. There was no origin, no explanation for his extraordinary fighting prowess, no kid sidekick or grotesque Nazi villains, for Minute-Man was stuck in the world of fictitious fascist nations that [Joe] Simon and [Jack] Kirby scorned as too timid for the times".
References
External links
Earth-S Minute-Man Index
Minute-Man profile
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