All Aboard!
This person watches the tracks and is the train boss.
Who is the engineer?
This was the purpose of this railroad.
What is "to connect the East US to the West for easier travel."
This person is known as the Father of American Railroad?
What is a John Stevens?
This is what you call a small steam engine on wheels.
What is a locomotive?
This person signed the Pacific Railroad Act.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person shovels the coal into the firebox and keeps the fire going.
Who is the fireman?
The transcontinental railroad united the United States in this time period.
What is the late 1800's?
Peter Cooper built the first small engine that rain on this energy source.
What is a steam?
I.E. Water and a combustible material like coal, oil, or wood
There are about this many railroads in the United States.
What is 700?
Signed in this year, the Staggers Rail Act allows railroads to operate like other businesses: Choose routes, Set prices, and Choose services.
What is 1980?
This term was a nickname for the passengers on a train.
What are "Peeps?"
It took this long to complete the transcontinental railroad.
What is six years?
Known as "the Commodore", the man was a railroad tycoon who owned a large portion of the nation's railroads.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
NOTE: Vanderbilt started his career in the steamboat industry and later bought and merged companies to monopolize the rail lines from the east coast to Chicago.
These were built to keep trains from running into each other.
What are sidetracks?
Passenger Rail Act of 1970, established the National Railroad Passenger Corp. to assume operation of this inter-city passenger rail service.
What is Amtrak?
This term was used to refer to people hopping freight trains to travel and find work. These people emerged in the United States shortly after the American Civil War and grew in number after the Great Depression.
What are "hobos"?
Who was in presidency during the completion of the transcontinental railroad? (March 4 1869- March 4 1877) Hint: 18th American president
Ulysses Grant
George Westinghouse invented this way to stop not only trains but other heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses.
What is the air brake?
This manned railroad car is coupled at the end of a freight train and it provides shelter for crew at the end of a train.
What is a Caboose?
The Railroad Act of 1862 gave this many companies the right to build.
What is two?
These four ethnic groups are largely credited for building our railroads.
What are Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, African Americans, and Civil War Veterans?
NOTE: Chinese immigrants widely contributed to our railroads on the West Coast, primarily building the Central Pacific Railroad, while Irish immigrants, alongside African Americans and Civil War veterans, were prevalent on the East Coast, constructing the Union Pacific Railroad
This President initiated the the efforts to build a transcontinental railroad to unite a nation from east to west
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the name of the full-sized train built by Mathias Baldwin.
What is the steam train Old Ironsides?
NOTE: This train was named after the USS Constitution, a US warship that earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812.
Basic unit of measure of freight handling used by railroads.
What is a carload?
The Pacific Railroad Act promoted this.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?