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Train Trivia 11/24/05 (ANSWERED)

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Anonymous
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Train Trivia 11/24/05 (ANSWERED)
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:20 PM
The air brake was invented in what year?

1. 1854
2. 1863
3. 1871
4. 1869

Since some of you were asking for easier qeustions.
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Posted by miniwyo on Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:54 PM
1863

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:23 PM
1869? But miniwyo sounds sure of himself....

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Posted by joseph2 on Friday, November 25, 2005 4:33 AM
1871,because air wasn't discovered until 1870.
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, November 25, 2005 10:34 AM
Definitely in 1869, althought the first air brake systems did not operate in the same way that the current system does.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 25, 2005 4:47 PM
I'll guess 1871.
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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Friday, November 25, 2005 6:44 PM
Google says that the first ones came into use in 1869, so it's either then or earlier. You see, I don't have this bank of knowledge in the early days...
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, November 25, 2005 7:11 PM
Off the top of my head, I would have to guess 1869.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 25, 2005 10:07 PM
1869. Now of course this should be a familiar year in railroad history does anyone know why?
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, November 25, 2005 10:41 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

1869. Now of course this should be a familiar year in railroad history does anyone know why?


May 10th, 1869?

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Friday, November 25, 2005 10:44 PM
Exactly 100 years before the UP centennials came out! Or....

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