Locomotive Legends
This type of locomotive replaced steam engines and is still the most common freight engine in North America today.
What is a diesel locomotive?
The Trans-Siberian Railway spans roughly this many time zones across Russia.
What is 7 time zones?
This animated movie features a magical train that takes a young boy to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is Polar Express?
Trains are guided by these, which keep the wheels from sliding off the rails.
What are flanges?
The 'Big Boy' locomotive, one of the largest ever built, was designed to haul freight over the mountains in this western US state.
What is Wyoming?
This US city has the busiest Amtrak station in the country.
What is New York City? (Penn Station)
In the board game Monopoly, players can own four train stations — one of which is named after this London terminus.
What is King's Cross?
This system allows a train dispatcher to remotely control and monitor train movements across a network.
What is signaling (or SCADA / centralized traffic control)?
Japan's Shinkansen bullet train first launched in this decade.
What is the 1960s? (1964)
The famous Orient Express originally ran between Paris and this city.
What is Istanbul (Constantinople)?
In Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown uses this type of train to power the time machine.
What is a steam locomotive?
Modern high-speed trains use this braking method that converts motion into electricity instead of just heat.
What is regenerative braking?
The TGV, one of the world's fastest trains, operates in this country?
What is France.
This narrow-gauge railway winds through the Swiss Alps and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
What is the Rhaetian Railway (or Bernina Express route)?
This 2011 J.J. Abrams film is named after the type of film used to capture footage of a mysterious train crash?
What is Super 8?
This term describes the gap between two rail ends that allows the metal to expand in heat without buckling.
What is an expansion joint (or rail gap)?
Maglev trains use this scientific force to float above the track with no wheels touching the rail.
What is magnetic levitation (magnetism)?
The 'Golden Spike' completing the first US transcontinental railroad was driven in this Utah location in 1869.
What is Promontory Summit?
The Hogwarts Express departs from London's King's Cross Station on Platform this number.
What is 9¾?
The standard distance between rails used in most of the world, measuring 4 feet 8.5 inches, is called this.
What is standard gauge?