“Boston Harbor,’’ by Fitz Hugh Lane, 1854.
Postcard depiction of the seasonal passenger train “The East Wind’’ (1940-1955). The train originated on the Pennsylvania Railroad, but traveled on both Boston & Maine Railroad and New Haven Railroad tracks for part of its journey between Portland, Maine, and Washington, D.C., via Worcester, New York and Philadelphia.
"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh."
— Thomas Appleton (1812-1884), Boston-based writer
