Blatantly Obvious but Poorly Described Defects
Knuckle Coupler isnt operational, why?
What is a broke knuckle pin?
What is the real Polar Express
What is Pere Marquette 1225?
Manufacturers often use this standard automatic magnetic coupler style, named after its inventing company, to replace traditional horn-hook couplers on HO scale trains.
What is Kadee?
What did Gresley design to have an experimental 450psi water tubbed boiler
What is LNER W1 "Hush Hush"?
What Happened To Rio Grande Southerns ENTIRE Railroad in 1938 *20 extra points if you can guess what the DIRECTOR went and did*
What is everyone and every locomotive getting stuck in a blizzard for two weeks. Bonus points, Mr. Victor Miller *Director* and the WHOLE TOWN OF RIDGEWAY CO.'s operating rail fleet to save his railroad.
Journal box on fire
Whats a hotbox?
What railroad supplied locos and rolling stock to Hollywood Studios
What is the Virginia & Truckee?
This analogue system allowed for individual control before DCC
What is Dynatrol?
Name one of the two locomotives that have circumnavigated the globe
What is the Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle
What Happened to D&RGW 346 on July 15, 1936?
D&RGW 346, began coming down Kenosha Pass' 4% downhill, light *mind you a 2-8-0 and tender* track speed was 12mph, its a gentle left hander into a right hander, the fireman jumps at the lefthander onto the grass and lives. The engineer Eugene McGowan and 346 hit the righthander and rollover pinning McGowan onto his side sustaining life ending injuries.
Train goes GADUNK GADUNK down the rails? What could be causing this???
What are Flat Spots
What Japanese manufacturer had a license to build Westinghouse Air Compressors
What is Mitsubishi?
What does the code of the rail mean
What is the height of the rail in thousands of an inch?
What is the name and class of the locomotive used as Hogwarts Castle in Harry Potter
What is GWR Hall Class #5972 Olton Hall?
What Happened to D&RGW 491 on December 28, 1951 on Cumbres Pass
491 was buried alive at milepost 321 for 35 long days
West Texas loses ENTIRE train due to this?
What is breaking a drawbar?
What Indian Railway had an 0-3-0?
What is the Patiala State Monorail *its a monorail with outriggers*
This horrendous monstrosity was made buy from the two surplus HoN3 K27 running gear frames joined together under one boiler
This is the gauge of the Talyllyn Railway
What is 2' 3"?
What D&RGW Locomotive fell off Toltec Gorge in 1943?
What is No. 445
Axle moves longitudinally when changing directions
What is a messed up wedge of driving box?
What electric locos where supposed to go to the Soviet Union but due to the Cold War stayed stateside
What is the "Little Joes"?
This two-letter term refers to the standard scale ratio of 1:87, making it the most popular model train size in the world.
What is HO Scale
Liverpool and Manchester railway had a series of locomotive trials
What is the Rainhill Trials
What happened to the D&RGW in the winter of 1960?
#497 came off the rails and smashed into a rockwall and #498 rolled over and slammed its cab and tender into 497 *crew jumped right before*