Trains in Common Life 1
A Little blue tank engine from the Island of Sodor.
What is Thomas The Tank Engine?
What sound do people most recognize with trains?
What is Chugga Chugga / Choo Choo?
A type of train that runs underground.
What is a Subway?
This railroad has transported people across America since 1971.
What is Amtrak?
The type of train car pulls the train.
What is a Locomotive?
This train is an icon of Christmas Trains.
What is the Polar Express?
During the holiday season, we put model trains around this thing.
What is a Christmas Tree?
This railroad line connected the East to the West in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was the only railway in Britain after all the railways in Britain were combined in 1948.
What is British Railways?
A train car that is at the end of every train. Usually painted red, but can be other colors.
This theme park has trains in it. There are two in the United States, one in California and one in Florida.
What is Disney Land?
Name a train museum on Long Island.
What is the Railroad Museum of Long Island / Oyster Bay Railroad Museum?
What train toured America between 1975 and 1976?
What is the American Freedom Train?
Founded in 1834, it runs people all across the island it's on, and to the big city west of the island.
What is the Long Island Railroad?
This type of car holds the fuel for steam locomotives.
What is the Tender (or coal car) ?
What company makes trains that you can construct out of blocks?
What is Lego?
What railroad engineer has many references in media. He was popularized by famous musicians Johnny Cash and the Grateful Dead
Who is Casey Jones?
From the beginning of railroad until the 1950s, this was the main type of railroad locomotive.
What is a Steam Locomotive?
This railroad was centered in New York, but ran all across the Northeastern and Midwestern USA.
What was the New York Central?
This type of car is designed to carry people.
What is a Passenger Car?
This company has made model trains since 1900. It is the most recognizable train company to the public.
What is Lionel?
The Long Island Railroad took people to what fair in 1964?
What is the New York Worlds Fair?
What was the era where steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives?
What is Dieselization?
This railroad car was used from the beginning up until modern day. Designs varied, but all the designs have an enclosed box riding on wheels.
What is a Box Car?