The Barons
Name Trains
Dumpster Fires
Acronimity 2.0
Wheels on Film
100

The master of the SP & UP

E. H. Harriman

100

Super Chief

Santa Fe

100

The largest railroad bankruptcy in 1970

Penn Central

100

CP (Think continentally)

Central Pacific

100

This runaway involved Denzel and a future Captain Kirk

Unstoppable

200

A college founder and a "Big Four" member

Leland Stanford

200

City of Kansas City

Union Pacific

200

Robert R. Young's luxury-liner that didn't turn a wheel

The Chessie

200

C&EI

Chicago & Eastern Illinois

200
Burt and friends take a joyride on a SP GS-4

Tough Guys

300
One of the wreckers of the Erie
James Fisk
300

Peninsula 400

Chicago & North Western

300

John Evans' dreams of crossing the Rockies was this failed project

Denver, South Park & Pacific

300

FW&D

Fort Worth & Denver

300

Daily Double: 

This film featured a Lima, not a Baldwin (according to the nerdy one)

Polar Express

400

This duo was famous, among other things, for spearheading Cleveland Union Terminal

The Van Sweringens

400

Blue Water

Amtrak

400

General Motors' sleek styling and bus bodies couldn't save this train

Aerotrain

400

SPC

South Pacific Coast

400

A man named Glenn fancies this film quite greatly

Emperor of the North

500
A decendent, whose nearly transcontinental empire collapsed around 1907

George Gould

500

Commercial Traveler

Toledo, St. Louis & Western

500

Successful overseas, this passenger concept failed to attract the public in the States

Talgo

500
CM&PS

Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound

500

Its not Amtrak, its Amroad, thank you very much

Silver Streak