Engines
Train Cars
Yards
Tracks
Popular Culture
100

The part of the train that supplies power to move

What is an engine

100

An enclosed freight car with two doors, shaped in a rectangular shape

What is a boxcar

100

A type of track that allows trains to move from one track to another

What is a switch

100

Metal things that trains run on

What are rails

100

A blue train with a face

What is Thomas the Tank Engine

200

A type of engine that runs on coal, wood, or oil

What is a steam engine

200

A cylindrical shaped freight car used for carrying liquids like oil and certain chemicals

What is a tank car

200
A railroad employee in charge of a rail yard

What is a yardmaster

200

Wooden or concrete slabs used for supporting the weight of the rails

What are sleepers/railroad ties

200

A train that runs to the North Pole on Christmas

What is the Polar Express

300

An alternate name for engine

What is a locomotive

300

A type of freight car that carries automobiles

What is an autorack

300

A locomotive that moves cars around in the yard

What is a switcher

300

A large nail with an offset head that is used to secure rails and base plates to sleepers/ties in the track

What is a railroad spike

300

A train that goes to a Wizard School in Scotland

What is the Hogwarts Express

400

A warning device used on engines to warn things of a train approaching

What is a horn/whistle

400
A type of freight car that may carry coal, ore, grain, soybeans, or other crops

What is a hopper car

400

A large round building that stores engines

What is a roundhouse

400

A large structure spanning across a river or a canyon that trains cross over

What is a bridge

400

A 2010 movie about a runaway train

What is Unstoppable

500

The largest operating steam locomotive in the world

What is Union Pacific's "Big Boy"

500
The type of freight car that goes at the end of the train, usually painted red

What is a caboose

500

A large building sometimes near a yard that people board trains at

What is a station

500

A large hole in a hill or a mountain that trains go through

What is a train tunnel

500

A movie about a mysterious murder on a European train

What is Murder on the Orient Express