Famous Locomotives
This locomotive won The Rainhill Trials, sparking an interest in steam powered transportation.
What is Stephenson's Rocket?
This is the compartment where the driver and fireman control the locomotive and tend to the firebox.
What is the cab?
It was the first preserved standard gauge railroad in the world to operate a public service.
What is the Bluebell Railway?
Ugly Ducklings, Biscuit Tins.
What is the Southern Railway Q1?
This bridge collapsed as a passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen line passed over it, killing everyone on board.
What is the Tay Rail Bridge?
This was the first locomotive to circumnavigate the globe.
What is The Flying Scotsman?
This stops the boiler pressure from exceeding the operating limit.
What is the safety valve?
This Welsh narrow gauge railway opened in 1865 to serve the nearby slate quarries.
What is the Talyllyn Railway?
Terriers.
What is the LB&SCR Class A1?
In 1995, No. 1278 from this railroad suffered a backdraft explosion, severely burning all three crew members in the cab.
What is the Gettysburg Railroad?
This locomotive made history when she met with Union Pacific No. 119 to complete the first transcontinental railroad.
What is Jupiter?
These allow steam to force water into the boiler when needed.
What are injectors?
This narrow gauge railway runs travels 4.7 miles from Llanberis to the highest peak in Wales.
What is the Snowdon Mountain Railway?
Wizzos.
What is the British Railways Class 52?
The deadliest avalanche in the United States took place here, throwing a train full of passengers and a mail train 150 feet downhill.
Where is Wellington, Washington?
This 4-4-0 designed by the Great Western Railway is rumored to be the first locomotive to attain a speed of 100 miles per hour.
What is City of Truro?
The cylindrical part of the boiler that holds the flues and tubes.
Chartered in 1832, this railroad is the oldest continuously operating standard gauge railroad in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Strasburg Railroad?
Whistlers.
What is the British Railways Class 40?
This alliterative accident occurred when a gasoline powered passenger car collided head-on with a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
What is the Doodlebug Disaster?
She was commandeered by Union forces during the American Civil War to do as much damage as possible to the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
What is The General?
These plugs melt out if the water level in the boiler gets too low.
What are fusible plugs?
Operating from 1871 to 1965, it is one of the oldest and best-preserved narrow gauge railroads in the Americas.
What is the East Broad Top Railroad?
Bongos.
What are the LNER Thompson B1s?
The Special Scotch Express collided with a coal train here, where the wreckage was then hit by another express train on January 21, 1876.
Where is Abbots Ripton?