Trains Trivia
All aboard—chug through train trivia and show you're no caboose when it comes to rails and railroading!
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
The folk song “Paddy Works on the Railway” tells of which immigrant group's labor in building 19th-century American railroads?
Irish
In the deadliest NYC subway crash of 1918, the Malbone Street cars were constructed from what material that splintered on impact and offered less protection than steel?
Wood
On which European country's terrain does the Glacier Express, dubbed the slowest express train in the world, operate between St. Moritz and Zermatt?
Switzerland
In 2023, South Western Railway trialled AI to translate live journey information into sign language for deaf and hard-of-hearing passengers. On which country’s rail network did this occur?
United Kingdom
What is the roof-mounted apparatus on an electric train that collects current from the overhead catenary system?
Pantograph