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TRIVIA QUIZ -- November 14, 2005 -- ANSWERED
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(and there should be no ambiguity this time) [8)] <br /> <br />What do the letters “CNAMR” designate? <br /> <br /> <br />1. Cargill-North America Molasses Railcar tanker. <br /> <br />2. Canadian National/ AMerican Railway, a computer program developed by the Canadian National to simulate the probable effects of a merger between CN and each of the four largest American RR’s. <br /> <br />3. Name of a coal unit train running full from the North Antelope mine in the PRB to a power plant on the Meramec River. <br /> <br />4. Chattanooga, Nashville and Mississippi Railroad, which later became part of the Southern Railway (now NS). <br /> <br />Have fun! <br />Al Smalling <br /> <br />********************** <br /> <br />ANSWER: #3 <br /> <br />CNAMR: <br /> <br />C = Coal train <br /> <br />NA = from the North Antelope mine (in the Powder River Basin) <br /> <br />MR = going to Meramec River power plant, “a Mississippi tributary close to St. Louis.” <br /> <br /> <br />Source: from “Coal Train – I” by John McPhee, THE NEW YORKER magazine, October 3, 2005, p. 74. <br /> <br />Thanks for playing! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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