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100
Two railroads, one from San Francisco, and one from Omaha met at Promontory Summit on May 10th, 1869. This occasion was celebrated with the driving of a Golden Spike.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This Midwestern City is sometimes referred to as "The Railroad Capital of the World."
What is Chicago?
100
Formed on May 1st, 1971, this railroad is in charge of all long distance passenger trains in America.
What is Amtrak?
100
Known for Collecting Food Donations During the Festive Season
What is the CP(KC) Holiday Train
100
Who is the President & CEO of CPKC?
Who is Keith Creel
200
Union Soldiers snuck into Georgia to steal a locomotive, the General. Confederate Soldiers chased them down, first on foot, and then on another engine, the Texas.
What is the Great Locomotive Chase?
200
The Junction whe 3 CN Subdivisions Converge?
What is Bayview Junction
200
This railroad is known for its distinctive, bright yellow paint scheme.
What is the Union Pacific?
200
This train is well-known for passing through the heart of the Rockies on its way to Vancouver.
What is The Canadian?
200
This railroader was mostly famous for his animated films. It is commonly joked that his first theme-park was an excuse for him to play trains whenever he wanted. He also founded an evil mega-corporation.
Who is Walt Disney?
300
The process in which steam locomotives were phased out of regular service in favor of diesel locomotives over the course of several decades.
What is Dieselization?
300
A U-Shaped curve, home to a triple-tracked mainline just outside of Altoona, PA.
What is Horseshoe Curve?
300
Founded in 1827, this railroad was the first common carrier railroad in the United States.
What is the Baltimore & Ohio?
300
This Train was operated by a northeastern railroad and was popularized as a country folk song by the same name.
What is the Wabash Cannonball?
300
This railroad tycoon founded what would eventually be known as the New York Central Railroad.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
400
This was the year that Penn-Central, the nation's largest railroad at the time, filed for bankruptcy amid a collapsing railroad industry.
What is 1970?
400
Located in New Jersey, This Place is Famed for the so Called "Dinky"
What is Princeton Junction?
400
This railroad is perhaps best known for a song written by Johnny Mercer in 1944. The song was also briefly featured in the Tom & Jerry animated short, "Cat Concerto."
What is the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad?
400
Running from New York to Chicago, this streamlined train has been used in many pieces of media as a sort of stock image and is an icon of the Art-Deco Era.
What is the 20th Century Limited?
400
This engineer was popularized via a folk song, that details his death in a train crash. The song was later popularized by Johnny Cash and the Grateful Dead.
Who is Casey Jones?
500
It was at this event, that one of the first mass-produced diesel locomotives, the EMC-E4 was displayed to the public.
What is the New York World's Fair?
500
This spot is known for having 3 railroads (The B&O, C&O, and NKP) converge on each other at once.
What is the Iron Triangle/What is Fostoria, Ohio?
500
Running from San Diego and El Centro via the Carrizo Gorge, this railroad was dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" while under construction, as the railroad was carved through desert mountain ranges.
What is the San Diego and Arizona Railroad?
500
Running between Los Angeles. San Francisco and Seattle, this train was Famous for it's use of the Streamlined GS-4 Locomotives
What is the Coast Daylight/Starlight?
500
Who is the former Railroad CEO of Multiple Companies Known for Creation of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR)
Who Is E. Hunter Harrison?