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Train Trivia 10/25/05 (ANSWERED)

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Train Trivia 10/25/05 (ANSWERED)
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:13 PM
What railroad currently owns the railroad that follows beside the panama cannal?

1. CSX
2. NS
3. KCS
4. BNSF
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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:16 PM
KCS.

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:17 PM
KCS....

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:23 PM
KCS,
no seach required this time.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 PM
KFC

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:34 PM
Geometricallly speaking, don't all 4 have lines that run parallel to the Panama Canal?[;)]

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Posted by ericsp on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:36 PM
Even I know this one, KCS.

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Posted by blhanel on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:40 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

Geometricallly speaking, don't all 4 have lines that run parallel to the Panama Canal?[;)]


Actually, if one of them didn't, none of them would based on your thinking- the Panama Canal runs north/south!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:49 PM
But all four do have north south lines at some point.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:04 PM
So all 4 answers ARE correct! Cool![:D] And I was just going to go out on a limb, and say Herbert Hoover. (Hint-it might in the wording of the question?) Are you asking which railroad IN Panama?

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:10 PM
Yes in Panama, next to the cannal, it was just pointed out that cannel, might be some desert annimal.
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Posted by miniwyo on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:13 PM
Directly, it is KCS. But technically all of them do.

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:47 AM
"Canal" would be nice.
Some old, but interesting, pictures-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThumbs.aspx?id=162225
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThumbs.aspx?id=161985
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:57 AM
The Panama Canal Railroad is now part of the KCS system. The line has had a most interesting history since it was built as the FIRST transcontinental railroad in the 1850's.
The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by blhanel on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:08 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

But all four do have north south lines at some point.


I guess I was thinking of "parallel" meaning, since the canal runs north/south, that they would have to be directly east or west of the canal and running north/south. But that's me being anal to the max.

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:24 AM
TRAINS mag. had an article on the operation and updating of this railroad several years ago.

Quentin

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Posted by eolafan on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:45 AM
KCS without a doubt...guaranteed.
Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:50 AM
Well, actually the correct answer is none of them "own" it, since KCS leases the line under a 25-year agreement from the Government of Panama under the PCRC operating name..... http://www.KCSI.com/corporate/pcrc.html or http://www.PanaRail.com/
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:22 PM
KCS. They bragged about it all over the place in their 2004 Annual Report.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:37 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

But all four do have north south lines at some point.


I guess I was thinking of "parallel" meaning, since the canal runs north/south, that they would have to be directly east or west of the canal and running north/south. But that's me being anal to the max.


That's ok. None of us understand binary either.[:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:05 PM
Maybe I maid this too easy, oh well todays is harder. The only person that got it wong said Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:56 PM
One time on Jeopardy the Final response asked which one part of the world does a person have to look WEST to the rising sun and EAST to the setting sun. I guessed the Isthmus of Panama, as did the winner, but the more I think of it the less it makes sense to me . . .

But then, I wasn't there the day the teacher did her thing with the globe and the orange . .

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