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100

This agency runs a majority of Seattle's bus lines, interoperating with several other regional systems.

What is King County Metro?

100

This transit agency runs ferries from downtown Seattle, Mukilteo, and other cities to various islands.

What is Washington State Ferries?

100

A fully at-grade type of transit on rails connected to overhead wires. Seattle has two of these!

What is a Streetcar?

100

This train line moves between Downtown Redmond and Lynwood.

What is the Link 2 Line?

100

This city calls its main heavy rail station "Pacific Central".

What is Vancouver?

200

The second-largest agency from which it derives its name, this national railway company is infamous for delayed and cancelled service.

What is Deutsche Ban?

200

This train line has weekday morning service from Everett to Seattle.

What is the Sounder N Line?

200

An electric bus powered by overhead catenaries, its name is a mash up of two other common forms of transit.

What is a Trolleybus?

200

This train line is Amtrak's most profitable.

What is the Acela Express?

200

This Oregon City is served by both the Amtrak Cascades and Empire Builder Lines.

What is Portland?

300

Using the Channel Tunnel from England to France, this transit group serves Western European countries with a logo that includes a six-pointed star in a circle.

What is the Eurostar Group?

300

The original 2009 Central Link alignment ran from Westlake Station to this station. A few months later, it would reach SeaTac airport.

What is Tukwilla International Boulevard Station?

300

The distinct two-word term for a fully grade-separated system used commonly throughout the world for urban transit.

What is Heavy Rail / Metro?

300

This train line connects Seattle or Portland to Chicago.

What is the Empire Builder Line?

300

This city was given the federal funding originally allocated to Seattle.

What is Atlanta?

400

One of the private company decendants of a formally public transit agency, it runs a bullet train south from the capital of its namesake archipelago country.

What is JR Central?

400

This currently deferred but planned Link station south of Seattle would have connected the link directly to Sounder Commuter Rail.

What is the Boeing Access Road Station?

400

This type of transit, found in places such as Portland and Phoenix, transports a small number of people along a suspendend cable.

What is a Gondola / Arial Tram?

400

When arriving at Narita Airport, take this line directly to Tokyo station for a quick trip into downtown.

What is the Narita Express?

400

This Washington City is the only one served by both branches of the Empire Builder Train.

What is Spokane?

500

A Rail Company similar to Amtrak, this agency runs trains across Canada; its name contains the word for track in some romance languages.

What is Via Rail?

500

These series of late 60s failed bond propositions would have funded rail in Seattle; the federal funds for the project eventually went to fund MARTA instead.

What is Forward Thrust?

500

This type of transit, common in mountainous regions, uses teeth to navigate passenger cars up steep inclines.

What is a Cog Railway?

500

Travel between Tokyo and Osaka currently takes two and a half hours. With this new maglev line, that time is expected to be cut to a single hour.

What is the Chuo Shinkansen?

500

This City is the French Terminus of the Channel Tunnel.

What is Calais?