As the most recent winner of the Railroad History Quiz Game (Come on in and play) thread in TRAINS -- GENERAL DISCUSSION, I posed a question that I thought would not be tremendously easy to answer, but might generate some educated guesses. It has bogged down; as of an hour ago there was only one answer after my initial question, and that was yesterday.
Then I realized that since the question dealt with RT, you guys mere might want to hear about it. This involves the planning for and construction of some heavy-rail RT cars for the Philadelphia area in the 1970's.
The rules that have evolved are fairly simple: no insults between posters, no inserting new questions by someone who doesn't have the right to do so. The winner, if he can't think of a question he'd like to post, can refer it to someone else (frequently the second-best answerer but that's not hard-and-fast). Some questions will have a similar theme for a time, but it's never wrong if you won yourself the right to put forth a new question to change the area entirely, as long as it had something to do with RR history.
The hardest rule of all to follow is: NO RESEARCHING. You can't call someone, or go elsewhere online for an answer, or look up HC even if it's in your living room. It's frustrating at times; I've been there. It is okay, however, to use the info from prior posts that you believe is accurate and add it to your own post; eventually enough answers will be given to declare a winner.
Again, go to TRAINS -- GENERAL DISCUSSION, thread RAILROAD HISTORY QUIZ GAME - Come on in and play. Only the most recent couple of posts are devoted to the Phlly/RT quiz question.
Try it, you might have a lot of fun!
al smalling, aka "al-in-chgo"
Also you have to be pretty quick to guess, because it gets the correct answer fairly immediate(kind of)
wyomingrailfan wrote: Also you have to be pretty quick to guess, because it gets the correct answer fairly immediate(kind of)
IMHO you're on the money, but there are exceptions. One query I posted concerned a pre-Amtrak varnish called "The Pelican," NYC - N. Orleans. I thought it would be a shoo(sp?)-in, but it was the "N&W haul in the middle" that stumped people.
But then, there are some so esoteric to me that I can barely understand them, -- OK with me nonetheless.
Also the folks in the Quiz to my way of thinking have been very gentlemanly (apologies if reader is female) and sporting. No hazing, one-upsmanship, that kind of thing. But definitely I love to see WAG's and love to post them. Good luck to us all!
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