Railroadin'
This railroad was the operator of the San Diegan, as well as the famous Chief-branded passenger services.
What is the Atkinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe (AT&SF)?
This MTS bus route used to run from UC San Diego to downtown, but now terminates at Old Town.
What is route 30?
This house in Old Town calls itself “America’s Most Haunted House” – and might have a claim to the title, dating back to 1857.
What is the Whaley House?
This New York subway line was first proposed in 1919, but its opening faced decades of delays and billions of dollars in cost.
What is the Second Avenue Subway?
SEPTA’s most recent fiscal cliff, which actually did lead to fare increases and severe temporary cuts, if fully implemented, would have led to all services under this brand ending at 9PM.
What is SEPTA Metro and/or Regional Rail?
The San Diego Trolley’s South Line got its ROW from this failed Spreckels venture, which was often termed the ‘impossible railroad’ and once connected San Diego to the SP mainline in El Centro.
What is the San Diego & Arizona?
This former station, described as a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of New York City, was demolished in favor of office space and a stadium arena.
What is New York Penn Station?
A Gaslamp Quarter hotel named for this early San Diego businessman is known for being haunted by a gambler who was killed in room #309.
Who was (Alonzo) Horton?
The hotel is the Horton Grand Hotel.
Due to ongoing disputes, litigation, and electrical arcing, this transit project has the highest cost per mile of any in the nation.
What is the LAX Automated People Mover (APM) / SkyLink?
It’s not quite SEPTA, but this ‘zombie’ PATCO station has closed and reopened three times, most recently in 2025.
What is Franklin Square station?
This legendary Class I railroad was renowned for its quality and is now a jointly owned subsidiary of CSX and NS.
What is Conrail?
This disused New York City Subway station, one of the system’s first, sees train traffic everyday, despite having been closed to passengers for over 80 years.
What is City Hall station?
The San Diego Trolley has only one abandoned station. Located downtown between Fifth Avenue and City College stations, it was named for this nearby senior living complex.
What is San Diego Square?
This in-progress and highly contentious High Speed Rail project is slated to order 3 American Pioneer 220 trainsets.
What is California High-Speed Rail?
When platform lights on this SEPTA line failed, there wasn’t any funding to replace them, so SEPTA warned riders to ‘make themselves visible’ to trains – using flashlights if necessary.
What is the [M] Norristown High Speed Line?
It’s not just defunct railroads that can be spooky! This railroad, which plays host to Metra’s North Central Service, is notorious for allowing very few passenger train slots in its schedule.
What is Canadian National (CN)?
This massive ‘interurban’ streetcar system used to stretch across the Los Angeles region, often considered one of the world’s great public transit networks and the force that built much of suburban L.A. County.
What is the Pacific Electric Railway (accept Red Cars)?
The outskirts of this north suburban neighborhood are home to the Cold War-era Sycamore Test Facility, a once secret rocket and weapons test site.
What is Scripps Ranch?
Sycamore Estates or Rancho Encantada PA are also acceptable answers.
This 2.4 mile modern streetcar system only ran for 10 years before shutting down due to conflicts with cars, high operating cost, and low ridership.
What is the DC Streetcar?
H Street/Benning Line is also an acceptable answer.
While attempting to procure new cars for this SEPTA service, the agency faced a lawsuit from railcar manufacturer Kawasaki alleging them of rigging the bid in favor of another firm.
What is SEPTA Regional Rail?
Part of Canadian Pacific’s transcontinental main line, this mountain pass and Canadian Historical Site along the Alberta-British Columbia border, once famous for having the steepest conventional railway grade in North America, is now home to two spiral tunnels.
What is Kicking Horse Pass?
Big Hill is also an acceptable answer.
An unpainted subway train runs beneath this European city in the dead of night. Legends say that if you board it, you will be taken to the underworld never to return. It is associated with other urban legends in the city.
What is Stockholm?
Late-night workers on this ferryboat, now part of the San Diego Maritime Museum, have reported cold-spots, doors slamming on their own, shadowy figures, and the footsteps of a supposed crewman who was fatally injured aboard.
What is the Berkeley Ferryboat?
This system began construction in the 1920s, but a series of unfortunate events such as the Great Depression and WW2 severely restricted the funding for continued construction. It is a popular urban exploration destination today.
What is the Cincinnati Subway?
When I-95 collapsed and Gov. Shapiro asked SEPTA to run extra emergency service on the Trenton line, they did... by shutting down this Regional Rail line entirely so they wouldn't have to pay the extra overtime.
What is the Cynwyd Line?