FrontRunner
SLC Light Rail
Transcontinental Railroad
Fun Facts
100

The end stations of the FrontRunner line.

What are Ogden and Provo?

100

The three different TRAX lines.

What are Blue, Green, and Red?

100

The two companies that built the first transcontinental railroad.

What are Central Pacific and Union Pacific?

100

This is most hauled by US railroads.

What is coal?

200

The number of FrontRunner stations.

What is 16?

200

The length of the TRAX.

What is 45 miles?

200

Where the two railroad companies met to complete the transcontinental railroad.

What is Promontory Summit?

200

The number of hippos one locomotive weighs.

What is about 108?

300

The date the FrontRunner opened.

What is April 2008?

300

When the first line of TRAX opened.

What is 1999?

300

The cost of a train ticket from New York to San Francisco in 1870.

What is $65?

300

These were established to standardize timekeeping for the railroad industry.

What are time zones?

400

Top speeds of FrontRunner trains.

What is 79 miles per hour?

400

The weight of a TRAX car.

What is 90,000 lbs?

400

Cost of building the transcontinental railroad in today's money.

What is $1.2 billion?

400

The width of a railroad track gauge.

What is 4ft 8.5in? (The width of two horse butts)

500

The inspiration for the name FrontRunner.

What is the Wasatch Front?

500

In 2012, TRAX was the ___-busiest light rail system in the United States.

What is ninth?

500

The time of the "Golden Spike Ceremony" (when the final spike was driven into the track).

What is 12:47 PM?

500

These always have the right of way.

What are trains?

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