General
Passenger Trains
Diesel
Steam Locomotives
Narrow Gauge
100

What railroad is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska

Union Pacific Railroad

100

What railroad operated the famous daylight?

Southern Pacific

100

What is a B Unit?

A Booster unit

100

What is whyte notation?

Wheel arrangement

100

Name of the famous narrow gauge railroad based in Durango, CO

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

200

Largest railroad in the US? (by trackage miles)

Union Pacific Railroad

200

What railroad operated the Nebraska Zephyr?

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

200

What is a mother-slug set?

Fully powered unit paired with a slug

200

What is this called (Thing on boiler)

Saddle tank

200
Where are most narrow gauge railways in the US?

Colorado

300

What American manufacture has made more locomotes since 1990

Wabtec (General Electric)


300

Name of the famous Santa Fe passenger route?

Super Chief

300

What does AC traction mean?

Alternating Current It refers to an electrical current that periodically reverses direction

300

What do you call the thing happening in this photo?

Double heading

300

Famous Alaskan/Canadian narrow gauge railway?

White Pass and Yukon Railway

400

What railroads make up Penn Central?

Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central System, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 

400

What was the last railway to operate privately owned passenger trains 

Denver & Rio Grande Western

400

What is notch 8?

Highest notch for speed on a control stand

400

What is the purpose of a trailing truck?

Supporting the weight of the firebox and cab

400

Largest narrow gauge locomotive (Hint: Not in the USA)

Central Railway of Brazil 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone"

500

Every railroad making up Union Pacific

Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific, Southern Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Missouri Kansas Texas, Norfolk Southern?

500

Original name for Amtrak?

Railpax

500

What does Tier 4 refer to?

The cleanest, most advanced diesel-electric freight locomotives in the U.S, and complaint with EPA standards

500

Where does a booster go on a steam locomotive? (Majority of the time)

Tender 

500

Last narrow gauge freight railroad in the USA

United States Gypsum

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