History
British locomotive that set the world speed record for steam.
What is Mallard?
Control used to reverse a steam locomotive, named after its inventor.
What is the Johnson bar?
American locomotive famous for its numerous film and TV appearances.
What is Sierra #3?
Oldest continuously operating railroad in the United States.
What is the Strasburg Rail Road?
Largest model train layout in the world, first opened in 2001.
What is Miniatur Wunderland?
Location of the famous Golden Spike ceremony in 1869.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
Dangerous type of coupler used before the invention of knuckle couplers.
What is link-and-pin?
Classic train song regarded by many as the origin of country music.
What is "Wreck of the Old 97"?
American tourist railroad, famous for a cat who lives there.
What is the Nevada Northern?
British equivalent of HO scale, slightly larger scale but using the same track.
What is OO gauge?
Heroic engineer who died in a wreck in 1900 and was immortalized in song.
Who is Casey Jones?
Common type of valve gear with most of the working parts on the outside.
What is Walschaerts valve gear?
Silent film about a train chase, based on actual events from the US Civil War.
What is Buster Keaton's "The General"?
British steam locomotive built from scratch in the 21st century.
What is Tornado?
Garden railroad scale that uses 1:20.3 scale equipment on G gauge track.
What is Fn3?
Inventor of the first practical steam locomotive, circa 1802.
Who was Richard Trevithick?
Rare type of locomotive with a single swiveling engine unit under the boiler.
What is a Mason Bogie?
Original writer and singer of the much-covered song "City of New Orleans".
Who is Steve Goodman?
World's oldest steam locomotive in regular service, located in India.
What is the Fairy Queen?
First mass-produced scale model of a locomotive, introduced in 1937.
What is the Lionel Hudson 700E?
Class of broad gauge British 2-2-2 steam locomotives from the 1840s.
What is the Great Western Firefly class?
Experimental steam exhaust system that drastically increases efficiency.
What is a Lempor exhaust?
1950 comedy Western film starring Rio Grande Southern locomotive #20.
What is "A Ticket to Tomahawk"?
Narrow gauge 2-6-0 that uses a boiler originally built for its more famous twin.
What is the Tahoe?
Rare scale that uses HO gauge track to model 42-inch gauge prototypes.
What is Sn3½?