Just a WAG: Bobsleds?? - a.s.
al-in-chgo wrote: What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it?
What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it?
Al, remember that the M10000 was a very short train. Just three cars, the first of which was half power unit, RPO and baggage/express. Total passenger seating was no more than 100 if that so it wasn't at all suited for a heavier traveled route. Traffic density on the Kansas City - Salina run was a pretty good match for its limited capacity.
Mark
al-in-chgo wrote: Just a WAG: Bobsleds?? - a.s.
...it's the summer Olympics coming up.....
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
oltmannd wrote: al-in-chgo wrote: Just a WAG: Bobsleds?? - a.s. ...it's the summer Olympics coming up.....
hmmm . . . I don't think they had skateboards in the 1930s . . .
oltmannd wrote: al-in-chgo wrote: J. Daddy wrote:What was the final answers? Did I get no. 6 right refering to the Mckeen gas car?I'll have to give you credit for your own answer to no. 6, but I was thinking along the lines of the M10000's usually being considered the second designed streamliner to run in the USA, although it actually ran first. Another answer to no. 6 that correctly speaks to the "second" theme put the M10000 just after Germany's "Flying Hamburger" which I believe also is correct. What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it? SOOOooo, it's time to pose another question. Anyone?? How about Salinas California?A quicky. The LIRR has a decent sized fleet of unique short commuter coaches know for their lousy ride. Some of them are still around in tourist line service. What nick name did they go by?Hint: Think of an apropros 2008 Olympic sport.
al-in-chgo wrote: J. Daddy wrote:What was the final answers? Did I get no. 6 right refering to the Mckeen gas car?I'll have to give you credit for your own answer to no. 6, but I was thinking along the lines of the M10000's usually being considered the second designed streamliner to run in the USA, although it actually ran first. Another answer to no. 6 that correctly speaks to the "second" theme put the M10000 just after Germany's "Flying Hamburger" which I believe also is correct. What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it? SOOOooo, it's time to pose another question. Anyone??
J. Daddy wrote:What was the final answers? Did I get no. 6 right refering to the Mckeen gas car?
I'll have to give you credit for your own answer to no. 6, but I was thinking along the lines of the M10000's usually being considered the second designed streamliner to run in the USA, although it actually ran first.
Another answer to no. 6 that correctly speaks to the "second" theme put the M10000 just after Germany's "Flying Hamburger" which I believe also is correct.
SOOOooo, it's time to pose another question. Anyone??
How about Salinas California?
A quicky. The LIRR has a decent sized fleet of unique short commuter coaches know for their lousy ride. Some of them are still around in tourist line service. What nick name did they go by?
Hint: Think of an apropros 2008 Olympic sport.
J. Daddy wrote: oltmannd wrote: al-in-chgo wrote: J. Daddy wrote:What was the final answers? Did I get no. 6 right refering to the Mckeen gas car?I'll have to give you credit for your own answer to no. 6, but I was thinking along the lines of the M10000's usually being considered the second designed streamliner to run in the USA, although it actually ran first. Another answer to no. 6 that correctly speaks to the "second" theme put the M10000 just after Germany's "Flying Hamburger" which I believe also is correct. What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it? SOOOooo, it's time to pose another question. Anyone?? How about Salinas California?A quicky. The LIRR has a decent sized fleet of unique short commuter coaches know for their lousy ride. Some of them are still around in tourist line service. What nick name did they go by?Hint: Think of an apropros 2008 Olympic sport. another WAG .... 'Stock pens"?
Nope. Go rent Forest Gump....
oltmannd wrote: J. Daddy wrote: oltmannd wrote: al-in-chgo wrote: J. Daddy wrote:What was the final answers? Did I get no. 6 right refering to the Mckeen gas car?I'll have to give you credit for your own answer to no. 6, but I was thinking along the lines of the M10000's usually being considered the second designed streamliner to run in the USA, although it actually ran first. Another answer to no. 6 that correctly speaks to the "second" theme put the M10000 just after Germany's "Flying Hamburger" which I believe also is correct. What I'm curious about is this: what's the big whoop about Salina, KS? Pretty small city, isn't it? SOOOooo, it's time to pose another question. Anyone?? How about Salinas California?A quicky. The LIRR has a decent sized fleet of unique short commuter coaches know for their lousy ride. Some of them are still around in tourist line service. What nick name did they go by?Hint: Think of an apropros 2008 Olympic sport. another WAG .... 'Stock pens"?Nope. Go rent Forest Gump....
LOL... seen it a million times, don't remember him riding a train though.... I remember him running coast to coast though...
Must've been Ping Pong cars
(If I'm right, somebody else ask a question--we're out of here!)
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
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I'm sorry to say that I had to do some digging around, but from the sites that I checked, I believe that Ping Pong cars is correct. Interestingly enough, it appears the ping-pong cars is the nickname of the MP54 Class of coaches on that line...
Well, I'll throw a question out there which I do remember that should be fairly easy...
What are the lines that currently run through State Line Junction in Hammond, Indiana?
As a bonus, can you name all of the lines that ran through State Line in 1947?
Rather than let the Railroad History Quiz Game die I have a question.
What three railroads operated the pool trains and what RR had cars operated by two of the other three over this same line?
Al - in - Stockton
I missed the question on State Line Tower. Wasn't it Erie, Nickel Plate, Wabash, EJ&E, and I think, Monon. Edit: C&O shared a two-track main with the Erie so they are included. C&O, Erie, and Monon all used Chicago & Western Indiana into Chicago. B&O and IHB also went through.
The survivers today are B&O (CSX) NKP (Norfolk Southern), IHB, and EJ&E.
It would have been a sweet place to watch trains back in the day.
passengerfan wrote: Rather than let the Railroad History Quiz Game die I have a question. What three railroads operated the pool trains and what RR had cars operated by two of the other three over this same line?Al - in - Stockton
You didn't say where, so I'm guessing GN and NP over the SP&S (jointly owned) between Seattle and Portland.
Is this anywhere near the field?? - a.s.
Ping Pongs MP 54 on the LIRR. One of the reasons they may have been called ping pongs is the the dashing dan logos on either end of the car in addition mp 54 's had a pair of port hole windows on the ends of the car for the crew to see out of. In addition the headlite was as big as these portholes & being mounted above the door.
In addition the cars often made a quick turn at Penn Station. In (ping), train crews changed ends, out (pong).
Rgds IGN
(oh yeah the 1st response on question about M 10000's "Helen Keller" LOL
The joint line Pueblo, Co - Denver, Co. ATSF, DRG , Rock Island, CBQ(Colorado & Southern), Missouri Pacific.
This is just a shot in the dark.
Other Possibility, Ogden,Ut - Nevada SP-WP shared trackage both operated trains for UP(I think) (at different times).
(another shot in the dark)
PS If I get it right someone continue for me.
So Al - in - Chicago got two of them right so far the GN and NP, actually SP&S is not one of them. There are still two more parts to the puzzle.
passengerfan wrote:Don't give up just a hint. The Pool trains operated between Seattle and Portland. Two operated between Portland Union Station to King Street Station Seattle and one operated to Union Station Seattle.
Didn't the CB&Q participate in the pool trains as well?
Sorry J. Daddy the CB&Q never operated on the west coast.
passengerfan wrote: Sorry J. Daddy the CB&Q never operated on the west coast. Al - in - Stockton
Mmmm, I'm running out of options. Were the three RR companies Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific? - a.s.
I believe the 3rd railroad in the pool train operation was the Union Pacific. I don't really know but will guess that the cars of the GN & NP ran over the UP line.
Sorry Mark you got the RR correct it was the UP but the line was actually NP owned and the UP operated via trackage rights as it does now. As part of the SP&S deal which the GN and NP owned jointly the GN was given trackage rights over the NP to Portland. The UP operated via trackage rights with the NP as far as Tacoma from Portland then operated via the Milwaukee Road to Seattle. The NP now owns that trackage and still operates to Tacoma via trackage rights from the BNSF.
The fourth RR operated passenger cars via the UP from Portland to Seattle and via the NP from Seattle to Portland. The fourth RR is now owned by the UP.
narig01 wrote: Ping Pongs MP 54 on the LIRR. One of the reasons they may have been called ping pongs is the the dashing dan logos on either end of the car in addition mp 54 's had a pair of port hole windows on the ends of the car for the crew to see out of. In addition the headlite was as big as these portholes & being mounted above the door. In addition the cars often made a quick turn at Penn Station. In (ping), train crews changed ends, out (pong).Rgds IGN(oh yeah the 1st response on question about M 10000's "Helen Keller" LOL Rgds IGN
Sorry for slowwww resonse. Vacation gets in the way of everything!
Ping Pong coaches is correct! They were named because of their lousy ride. They'd hunt like mad at certain speeds and the rider's felt like ping pong balls. I think the nick name predated Dashing Dan....
So, has the Pacific Northwest RR co. question been answered fully? - a.s.
Actually the fourth RR was the SP.
I think it is your turn Al.
passengerfan wrote: Actually the fourth RR was the SP.I think it is your turn Al.Al - in - Stockton
OK, here goes: Who wrote the novel that was the inspiration for the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train and what was the name of that novel? No research, please.
al-in-chgo wrote: passengerfan wrote: Actually the fourth RR was the SP.I think it is your turn Al.Al - in - Stockton OK, here goes: Who wrote the novel that was the inspiration for the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train and what was the name of that novel? No research, please.
I'm surprised no one is even trying to answer this one. - a. s.
The novel has the same name as the film. As for the author, well.
doghouse wrote: The novel has the same name as the film. As for the author, well.
Hint: She also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley, another novel that was made into a movie. The novel and movie are both set in the Fifties, but the movie was made many years later and starred Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Matt Damon.
Agatha Christie? (Hope I don't shoot myself again)
Al good to see you back again.
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