1. What is the highest point on the route of The Sunset Limited?

2. Name three Amtrak stations where passengers can easily walk to a ferry boat.

3. Which Amtrak station would you use to attend The Grand National Tractor Pull?

4. Name five locations where Amtrak trains pass a nuclear power plant.

5. What is the oldest piece of rolling stock on Amtrak's roster?

6. What does the quote, “We will be judged not by the monuments we built, but by those we have destroyed?” refer to?

7. What Amtrak power generates 1,140 horsepower?

8. Which Amtrak train passes through the Arbuckle Mountains?

9. Name four past or present Amtrak destinations where steam locomotives were built.

10. Name three Amtrak stations located on a thoroughfare named Railroad Avenue.

11. BONUS #1 - Name the trains out of Chicago which terminate at a higher elevation than where they began.

12. BONUS #2 - What is the approximate number of ties used in a mile of railroad track?

#4 - all I can think of immediately is Threemile Island, PA (Middletown station) and Trojan Power Plant in WA (Kelso-Longview station)

port kentI think the quote had to do with tearing down Penn Station.

Jon

1) Alpine, TX
2) Port Kent, NY; New London, CT; Bridgeport, CT -- but also Oakland, CA (ferry to San Francisco from Jack London Square)

8) The Arbuckle Mountains are in OK, train is the Heartland Flyer

9) Steam locomotives were built in:

Schenectady
Philadelphia (Eddystone after 1928)
Lima, OH (on former route of Broadway)
Montreal

12) Mainline track has 3,200 ties per mile

Question: did any Amtrak train ever run on track owned by the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad?

the Fullerton California station is on Santa Fe avenue, as I believe several other former Santa Fe stations are.

There is a Prairie Island Power Plant in Minnesota.

#6: The quote was said in the New York Times about Demolishing Penn Station

UncleBuck44 got #12 first - approx. 3,000 ties to the mile. He also answered #3 first - the Grand National Tractor Pull is in Tomah, WI, an Empire Builder Stop.

JonA got #6 right first. The quote refers to the demolition of Penn Station in NYC.

rresor had the first qualifying answer for Question #2. He named three Amtrak stations within walking distance of a ferry boat. He also named four past or present Amtrak destinations where steam locomotives were built: Schnectady, Philly, Lima, Montreal...

EspeeFoamer got #1 right first. The highest point on the Sunset Route is Paisano Pass, Paisanos.

We've got five nuclear plants named that are passed by Amtrak trains, but they weren't named by just one person. And to think I wondered if this question might have been too easy.

Too bad I lost that gym bag with Britney's picture. Her cell # was in the bag too. Now I can't call her to arrange your Maui date, zephyr.

On that note, along with my apologies for any disappointment you may be experiencing, here's a complimentary link to a world-class passenger train corporation that can provide you with the rail journey of a lifetime - provided you can provide the money! Congratulations!
www.amtrak.com

Dave

[This message has been edited by dnsommer (edited 11-13-2003).]

I found this statement regarding Amtrak operating on E-L trackage:

"In 1974, Amtrak's Cardinal began using this line into Chicago (the former C&O/C&WI), which included some trackage in Hammond shared with Erie Lackawanna. But when Conrail abandoned the Erie Lackawanna line in 1976, C&O began routing its freight trains over the Baltimore and Ohio line east to Wellsboro, IN, and via a C&O branch line south, joining the C&O main line at La Crosse, IN. Amtrak attempted to retain the routing through Hammond, but eventually switched to the routing via Wellsboro. This lasted until 1986, when the Cardinal routing was changed again to allow CSX, the new owners of the line, to downgrade the line."

Dave