Train Trivia Updated: 6/9/06

[espeefoamer]

THE ROCK ISLAND LINE SERVES THE MOST STATES[:D].

[CShaveRR]

Looking at maps (that isn't cheating, is it?), I find that yes, amazingly, RI narrowly beats out UP and ATSF. SP wasn't even close.

[Murphy Siding]

Well...the Rock Island Line, she's a mighty good road....So I'll pick #4, even though I can't find that particular reference book right now.

[selector]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

Unless you count the challenger and other heritage locos.

Lotus, in the average age range of the vastly more numerous other locos, those two heritage steamers, as statistical outliers, would add about one week to the mean (average). Recall, as well, that accidents will tend to draw down the age, so it all balances out. [:D]

-Crandell

PS -I know this goes back to Dec, but I happened to come across it just now.

[Anonymous]

2/20/06

Which of these railroads served the most states in 1950?

1. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
2. Southern Pacific
3. Union Pacific
4. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
they served 14 states. Source: The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads

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[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

#3. Romney,Hythe,& Dymechurch.And it is still steam operated,though it has some diesels! It would be really cool riding a real railroad that small.[8D]

I would go with the 1'-3" gauge guess as well. And they have diesels? Now, that sounds interesting.

[espeefoamer]

#3. Romney,Hythe,& Dymechurch.And it is still steam operated,though it has some diesels! It would be really cool riding a real railroad that small.[8D]

[Overmod]

Gauge question - presumably 'Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch'? (3)

The operative term being 'smallest' -- IIRC it's really a model railway that happens to be used for 'real' purposes...

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

2/13/06

In 1950 about how many passenger cars did the Gulf Mobile & Ohio railroad have?

1. 100
2. 200
3. 300
4. 800
207 actually.
Source: The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads
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James-your source was the book I was looking for.[(-D][(-D][(-D]

[Anonymous]

2/15/06

What gauge is the smallest public railway in the world?

1. 3ft
2. 2ft
3. 1 ft 3 inch
4. 3 ft 6 inch
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in England has 13 miles of 1ft 3 inch gauge track. Besides being a tourist attraction the railway also hauls two hundred students to and from school each day for which the diesels are used to save on fuel costs.
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[Murphy Siding]

I tried to look this up in a book at home, but apparantly I have too many books to find anything. I think even a small line in 1950 might have 200 passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

I'd vote 200 myself.

[CShaveRR]

Two hundred, possibly a few more, back in 1950. They had quite an impressive fleet of trains between Chicago and St. Louis.

[espeefoamer]

As a medium sized railroad,the GM&O would not need a large fleet. I'll say 2.200

[Anonymous]

2/13/06

In 1950 about how many passenger cars did the Gulf Mobile & Ohio railroad have?

1. 100
2. 200
3. 300
4. 800
207 actually.
Source: The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads
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[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

( These locomotives did NOT burn sleds)[;)].

that'd be an awfully odd looking tender[;)]

[Anonymous]

Northern Pacific...

[espeefoamer]

Northern Pacific. This was the Rosebud coal mined locally.
( These locomotives did NOT burn sleds)[;)].

[Murphy Siding]

I'll say Northern Pacific, using coal from southern Montana and North Dakota.

[Anonymous]

2/10/06

Alco put a oversized boiler on a 4-8-2 so it could burn the low grade coal mined on the _____________ creating the first 4-8-4 in 1926.

1. Great Northern
2. Chicago & Northwestern
3. Northern Pacific
4. Southern
Nothern Pacific, the 4-8-4 was the first really universal engine with the power for freights and speed for passenger trains since the 4-4-0 American.
Source: The Steam Locomotive

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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

2/6/06

The bricks used on many of the Northern Pacific structures including a large hotel, were brought back as ballast on ships hauling what to China?

1. Locomotives
2. Lumber
3. Drugs
4. Grain

Score one for the lumber salesman.[:D]

~

Thanks to you I was able to guess it right[:)]

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

2/6/06

The bricks used on many of the Northern Pacific structures including a large hotel, were brought back as ballast on ships hauling what to China?

1. Locomotives
2. Lumber
3. Drugs
4. Grain

Score one for the lumber salesman.[:D]

~

[Anonymous]

2/7/06

In the 1967 Movie Scalplock what was the owner of the railroad's hand that caused him to bet his own railroad and then loose it?

1. A full house
2. Aces and Eights
3. Royal Flush
4. Four of a kind
Sorry about how long it took I have been swamped lately.
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[espeefoamer]

Locomotives[:)].

[Murphy Siding]

That would have to be some really "heavy" drugs.[;)]

[chad thomas]

Drugs ???
Would that be the red eye express?

[PBenham]

Aw, c'mon, Drugs-- as Ballast? who do you think we are, anyway?

[Anonymous]

Lumber

[vsmith]

Locomotives

[Murphy Siding]

Being a lumber salesman, I'll go with #2.