Railroad History Quiz Game (Come on in and play)

[Anonymous]

If my memory does not fail me,   were these the "Thrall Door Cars" 

I had a several models of these, (got the shells off a $0.25 RR show table).

Rgds IGN

 

Oh yes & I shld mention  the reason for the name.   The entire side of the car were doors, hence,  (can't remember the name of company) all   door

 

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[CShaveRR]

*** I know name and the reason I just can't remember the name. I have a 3 pack MNS from walthers in HO scale I bought a few yrs ago.

I know Im wrong if this is not trade name, but here going nothing.

plywood panel boxcars, and the reason was that every door opened and you were able to load or unload the car in the rain just not sure how, it either was like a garage door or the door folded up like an acordion

Nope.  Don't recall MNS having anything like these--they had regular LU cars, and some Evans-built "Side-Sliders", which were still another variant.

Adding a hint:

Wow, wow, wow, fellas;/Won't find these old cars now, fellas!

[Ster1]

*** I know name and the reason I just can't remember the name. I have a 3 pack MNS from walthers in HO scale I bought a few yrs ago.

I know Im wrong if this is not trade name, but here going nothing.

plywood panel boxcars, and the reason was that every door opened and you were able to load or unload the car in the rain just not sure how, it either was like a garage door or the door folded up like an acordion

[CShaveRR]

No, Al--these are freight cars, built in the late 1960s and not indigenous to any particular railroad.  They were leased by Transport Leasing to a number of different lumber comnpanies.

[al-in-chgo]

Are you referring to the New York Central's Vanliners of the 1960s? 

They were a lot like today's NS Triple Crown shipments (same vehicle can ride on rr wheels or tires), but as the NYC couldn't get anyone else outside its system to build the right kind of intermodal facilities, they did not work out. 

Once again, Al Perlman was in the vanguard.

 

[CShaveRR]

Ho-kay!

We've had a thread on the Forum about cars of AAR Mechanical Designation LU--the cars that had nothing but doors along the sides, so that up to half of the car's side could be opened at any one time.  Pullman Standard tried its hand at a similar car, which had only two doors per side at the center, but was supposed to be just as easy to load and unload as their all-door counterparts.

Only 40 of these Pullman-Standard cars were built.  What was their trade name, and what was the feature that allegedly made them easy to load and unload?  (Hint--if you know one part of the question, you should be able to deduce the other.)

[KCSfan]

Was the Texas Mexican a Class I when it dieselized?  I think that was in the early 40s, or perhaps even 1939.

Bingo we have a winner! The Tex Mex was a Class I in 1939 when it acquired seven Whitcomb locomotives and became completely dieselized. Like some other railroads that followed, it kept several steam locomotives on the roster for a few years longer as standby power but the Whitcombs performed quite well and these were rarely used and were off its roster following WW2.

Mark

[CShaveRR]

Was the Texas Mexican a Class I when it dieselized?  I think that was in the early 40s, or perhaps even 1939.

[al-in-chgo]

Nope it wasn't the Susie Q or the CNJ. No cigar for you guys yet.

Mark

Spokane, Portland & Seattle? 

[KCSfan]

Nope it wasn't the Susie Q or the CNJ. No cigar for you guys yet.

Mark

[al-in-chgo]

Central of New Jersey?

[KCSfan]

Mark

I believe the railroad was the Gulf Mobile & Ohio and the year was 1950.

Al - in - Stockton

Sorry Al it wasn't the GM&O and the time was well before 1950. The GM&O is generally credited with being the first railroad in the south to completely dieselize. But remember at the time a Class I was defined as a railroad with annual revenues of more than a million $ and there were well over a hundred of them. The first to completely dieselize was one of the smallest Class I's.

Mark 

[CShaveRR]

I believe that the New York, Susquehanna & Western was a Class I railroad when it was dieselized with RS-1s in 1945.

[passengerfan]

Mark

I believe the railroad was the Gulf Mobile & Ohio and the year was 1950.

Al - in - Stockton

[KCSfan]

What former Class I railroad is recognized as the first to become completely dieselized and in what year did it attain this distinction?

Mark 

[al-in-chgo]

Chicago Great Western

Mark

 

Correct!!

 

[KCSfan]

Chicago Great Western

Mark

 

[al-in-chgo]

Bingo Al in Chicago you got it . It was the Ocean and Chaleaur and the third was the Scotian but only for a short while as that train required to much switching at the time.

Al - in - Stockton

 

Okay, here's one that should be fairly easy:  Name the railroad company whose north-south and east-west axes crossed at Oelwein, Iowa. 

 

[passengerfan]

Bingo Al in Chicago you got it . It was the Ocean and Chaleaur and the third was the Scotian but only for a short while as that train required to much switching at the time.

Al - in - Stockton

[al-in-chgo]

Between Carl and Al they got the two western trains that received the Super Domes the Super Continental and the Panorama. Now how about two of the trains that received the Skytop Observations.

Al - in - Stockton

Perhaps the Chaleur or the Ocean? 

[passengerfan]

Between Carl and Al they got the two western trains that received the Super Domes the Super Continental and the Panorama. Now how about two of the trains that received the Skytop Observations.

Al - in - Stockton

[al-in-chgo]

I believe that a train named the Panorama was instituted for some of these cars.

Didn't the Super Continental get domes too?

 

[CShaveRR]

I believe that a train named the Panorama was instituted for some of these cars.

[passengerfan]

Is anyone out there today and what happened to all of the passenger train lovers out there. I will settle for the two CN trains that operated the former Milwaukee Super Domes and two of the CN trains that operated the former Milwaukee Road Skytop Observations.

Al - in - Stockton 

[passengerfan]

In the late 1960's the Canadian National purchased the six Super Domes and the six Skytop Observations from the Milwaukee Road that had operated in the Olympian Hiawatha. Name the two CN trains that were assigned the domes and the three trains that were assigned the Skytop Observations?

Al - in - Stockton

[KCSfan]

I was watching TV and I knew I would not be able to sleep without answering the question. The Northbound train from New Orleans was the Creole and the equipment returned south on the Southern Express. Now can I go to sleep.

Al - in - Stockton

The Southern Express is right. On weekends when I went home to Chicagoland from the Univ of Ill I usually rode either the Seminole or the later Louisiane back to Champaign. Once I missed the Louisiane and had to ride the Southern Express which arrived in Champaign at the ungodly hour of 3:55 AM. There were three of us in the one coach that was open; the Conductor, a Flagman and I. It was the only passenger train that I ever rode where the trainmen wore overalls not uniforms.

Since we have a three way tie between Dakguy and the two Al's, as far as I'm concerned any one of you can ask the next question.

Mark

[passengerfan]

I was watching TV and I knew I would not be able to sleep without answering the question. The Northbound train from New Orleans was the Creole and the equipment returned south on the Southern Express. Now can I go to sleep.

Al - in - Stockton

[al-in-chgo]

The train had name that suggested it was more than a local that stopped at every hamlet south of Champaign on its way to New Orleans.

Mark

The Daily Mail?

 

[KCSfan]

The train had name that suggested it was more than a local that stopped at every hamlet south of Champaign on its way to New Orleans.

Mark

[al-in-chgo]

    Cajuns(sp?)

 

The Creole??  - a.s.

Right on Al it was the Creole. You and Dakguy are tied so far. Let's see who can name the train that deadheaded the Creole's equipment back from Chi to NO.

Mark

Sorry, but I have no idea.