The Cape Codder was a pair of day and night passenger trains run by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH) from the latter 1920s to the mid 1960s, with some brief interruptions. Its distinction was the longest tenure of direct summertime New York City to Cape Cod trains. With the improvement of highways in southeastern Massachusetts, passenger rail traffic diminished, and the Cape Codder service ended with the New Haven Railroad's discontinuing of passenger rail service to Cape Cod.
1960 advertisement for the Day Cape Codder and Neptune
View at the main Cape Codder eastern terminus, Hyannis station, ca. 1945–1950.
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of the New York and New Haven and Hartford and New Haven railroads, the company had near-total dominance of railroad traffic in Southern New England for the first half of the 20th century.
A New Haven Railroad train in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1962
Train over the Norwalk River (1914 postcard)
By 1900, the New Haven's trains could be found almost everywhere in Southern New England
NH logo created by Herbert Matter during the McGinnis era (1954–1956)
