TRIVIA QUIZ -- November 14, 2005 -- ANSWERED

[Anonymous]

(and there should be no ambiguity this time) [8)]

What do the letters “CNAMR” designate?


1. Cargill-North America Molasses Railcar tanker.

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.

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.

4. Chattanooga, Nashville and Mississippi Railroad, which later became part of the Southern Railway (now NS).

Have fun!
Al Smalling

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ANSWER: #3

CNAMR:

C = Coal train

NA = from the North Antelope mine (in the Powder River Basin)

MR = going to Meramec River power plant, “a Mississippi tributary close to St. Louis.”


Source: from “Coal Train – I” by John McPhee, THE NEW YORKER magazine, October 3, 2005, p. 74.

Thanks for playing!

[Anonymous]

ill go with 1

[Texas Zepher]

I'll go with #2 because it sounds like something people in my industry do.

[mecovey]

Canadian National Model Railroader ?

[willy6]

#3

[Anonymous]

Hi, just a note to let everyone know this thread will be open until about 5:00 p.m. today (Tuesday the 15th). Come and test your knowledge!

Al Smalling

[joseph2]

#2

[trainboyH16-44]

Wow, that was a toughie! And I just missed it! Thanks for that tidbit, which I am now obliged to forget as I have some physics equations to learn.
Matthew