EastEndin'
What eastern road liked outsourcing locomotive bulids to Baldwin the most?
The Pennsylvania Railroad (There should be no reason y'all get that wrong).
Where was SOU #1401 yeeted to after withdrawal?
Smithsonian Institution (Museum of History and Technology Exhibition)
Which engine wheeshed the Zephyr in the movie "The Silver Streak"?
CB&Q 2-8-2 No.4990
What railroad did the Conway Scenic Railroad's trackage originally belong to?
The Boston & Maine
What was the first train to use Hi-Level coaches?
The El' Capitan
What road owned Helmerstetter's Curve prior to the merger era (70s)?
The Western Maryland Railroad
What Western & Atlantic engine was not regauged?
The Yonah
How many NKP Berkshires are preserved?
Six.
(755, 757, 759, 763, 765 & 779)
What locomotive of the Maine Central Railroad is a character in Somewhererica?
Maine Central GP38 No. 253 (Later IBRM No. 4 "Benjamin"
How many trains of the Daylight series were created total on the Southern Pacific?
Five/Six, the original Daylight (which was split into the Morning Daylight and the Noon Daylight during the Forties), the San Joaquin Daylight, the Shasta Daylight, the Sacramento Daylight, and the Sunbeam.
There are three railroads (that I can think of) that the Baltimore and Ohio had control of. Name one of those roads.
The Alton Railroad, the Reading Railroad or (on a slight technicality) the Central Railroad of New Jersey
What railroad ran the Orange Blossom Special?
The Seaboard Air Line
What is the Illinois Central's most famous train?
The Panama Limited
What locomotive pulled the Boston & Maine's steam powered revenue passenger train?
B&M P4 Pacific No. 3713 – "The Constitution"
For what reason was the first month of 1952 difficult for the southern Pacific? (I apologize for not thinking of a better way to phrase this).
The City of San Francisco got stranded in a snowstorm for six days.
What streamlined passenger train could not stop hitting things on level crossings?
The New York Central's Mercury
What railroad originally owned the trackage of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad?
The Southern Railway
(Part of the Murphy Branch)
What railroad was the 1930 film "Danger Lights" filmed on?
Milwaukee Road
(On the main line and their yard & shop at Miles City, Montana )
The SP&S was a joint venture between two railroads. Which railroads were involved in said joint venture?
The Great Northern Railway & the Northern Pacific Railway.
(They wanted build a railroad along the north bank of the Columbia River)
What roads shared the running of Exposition Flyer (And the California Zephyr after)?
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, The Denver and Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific.
Up until the late 70s, there was something known as the Alphabet Route, where multiple roads in conjunction with one another to provide a fast through service. Guess one or two eastern roads that may have been involved in this service.
The Nickel Plate Road (from Chicago and East St. Louis to Bellevue, Ohio)
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (from Toledo, Ohio, via Bellevue to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio)
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway (from Pittsburgh Junction to Connellsville, Pennsylvania)
Western Maryland Railway (WM) (from Connellsville via Hagerstown, Maryland, to Baltimore, Maryland, and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania)
Reading Company (from Shippensburg via Reading, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia and Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Central Railroad of New Jersey (from Allentown via Easton, Pennsylvania, to Jersey City, New Jersey)
(Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (from Allentown via Easton {trackage rights on the CNJ} to Maybrook, New York)
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (from Maybrook via New Haven, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, to Boston, Massachusetts)
Which Southern road had two Es rebuilt into different types?
The Atlantic Coast Line
(They were both E3s. 500 was wrecked in Fleming, GA in 1953 and rebuilt by EMD as an E8A. 501 was wrecked before delivery and rebuilt by EMC as an E6A)
What was the CNW's first 400 train renamed to?
The Twin Cities 400
What train replaced the Glacier Park Limited on the Great Northern?
The Empire Builder
In the late-1870s, two railroads were fighting for access to New Mexico. Which two railroads were responsible for the fighting?
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
(This Was the Colorado Railroad War {1878-1879})