I found these two tests in some old Trains magazines. Some of you may find these interesting. You have to line up each place with a railroad. They can only be sloved one way.Enjoy !
1-Bentonite Spur,.Wyoming…Illinois Central
2-Chaffee, Missouri…Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
3-Pensacola, Florida…Baltimore and Ohio
4-Norton, Virginia…Chicago and North Wesrtern
5-Centrailia, Illinois…Great Northern
6-Sioux City, Iowa…Chicago and Eastern Illinois
7-Seymour, Indiana…Southern Railway
8-Madison, Wisconsin…Louisville and Nashville
9-Paducah, Kentucky…Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
10-Shawneetown, Illinois…Penn Central
11-Cairo, Illinois…St,Louis, San Fransisco
12-Eunice, Louisiana…Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
Test 2 :
1-Huntingdon, Quebec…Canadian National
2-Dayton, Ohio…Soo Line
3-Keokuk, Iowa…Great Northern
4-Winchester, Virginia…Southern Railway
5-Helena, Arkansas…Louisville and Nashville
6-Natchez, Mississippi…Atchison, Topeka and Santa fe
7-Port Angeles, Washington…Central Vermont
8-Wells, Nevada…Missouri Pacific
9-Oakdale, Louisiana…Baltimore and Ohio
10-Whitetail, Montana…Penn Central
11-Mammoth, California…Erie Lackawanna
12-Ashland, Wisconsin…Illinois Central
13-New London, Connecticut…Norfolk and Western
14-Warroad, Minnesota…
Bentonite Spur, WY: C&NW - the end of the line…almost to Montana.
Chaffee, MO: C&EI. They had two southern Illinois branches: to Joppa, IL on the Ohio river, and across the Mississippi River to Chaffee, MO where they interchanged with SLSF. The Mississippi River Bridge, now used by UP (and BNSF on occasion) was primarily a SSW (Cotton Belt) bridge owned by the Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Co.
Pensacola, FL: SLSF: Southernmost point on the old Frisco.
Norton, VA: L&N. We often consider Louisville and Nashville to be in Kentucky and N&W in Virginia, but both served Norton.
Centralia, IL: Could be CB&Q, but answer has to be Southern (their line to St. Louis), as CB&Q has to be the answer to number 9 (as Southern didn’t serve Paducah).
Sioux City, IA: GN. Only their line to Bieber, California went further south. (Actually, GN constructed the line all the way to Ashland, NE operated by CB&Q).
Seymour, IN: CMSt.P&P (Milwaukee Road). This was the easternmost point on the railroad (though it once went as far as Westport, IN; originally Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway).
Madison, WI: IC. Illinois Central’s only entrance into Wisconsin.
Paducah, KY: CB&Q (see no. 5 above).
Shawneetown, IL: B&O; served by a branch off the Cincinnati-St. Louis main at Flora.
Cairo, IL: Penn Central. This ex-NYC branch from Paris, IL was NYC’s southernmost point.
Eunice, LA: CRI&P. End of a long branch line from Little Rock, AR.
Test 2:
Huntingdon, QC: PC; on New York Central’s long branch to Montreal from Syracuse.
Dayton, OH: EL. On one of Erie Lackawanna’s few branch lines in Ohio, between the main line at Marion and Cincinnati.
Keokuk, IA: N&W: (Former Wabash) the end of a long branch line from East Hannibal, IL on the Decatur-Moberly main line. <
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Perfect answer, and that got you a star for your 50th post as well.
For your test below, we’ll say Butte includes Silver Bow.
My Dec.1972 Official Guide shows Butte on their map, so I guess they had rights into the city. Did they give up the rights in the 1980s or 1990s?
Test 1 was in the second section of 3-69 Trains and test 2 was from a reader in 6-69 Trains.
Milwaukee Road
Canadian Pacific
Chicago and North Western
Great Northern
Baltimore and Ohio
Penn Central
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Chesapeake and Ohio
Missouri Pacific
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
This is a “handmade” version of the first ones, which I remember from TRAINS. It was something along the line of “Railraods, where they shouldn’t be” or something like that…
I know the following: Wells River was where the Canadian Pacific handed over the Red Wing and the Allouette to the Boston and Maine. Butte was on the electrified portion of the Great Nrothern and interchanged with the Butte Aanaconda and Pacific also electrified. The GN was at 3000V DC and the BA&P at 2200, but the GN locos could run under the reduced voltage BA&P wire for interchange. I think that at one time the B&O had a branch to Buffalo, but it may have been Rochester, one of these should be B&O and one PC. Pueblo is the northern point on the Sante Fe line from Raton where it joins the D&RGW and the Colorado Southern (Burlington) for the “Joint Line” through Colorado Springs to Denver. The rest would probably be guess work for me.
1-MP,2-IC,3-CP,4-CRIP,5-UP,6-Milw,7-GN,8-ATSF,9-CNW,10-PC,11-C&O,12-B&O
I did it from memory and got 5 wrong. I had to look up Hills.I am sure I’ve seen another one of these in Trains with Superior,NE. Daveklepper (looks RSA, we have many around here) you have GN and CMSP&P mixed up.UP got to Butte first on 40lb narrow gauge 12 26,1881 and built to Garrison but sold that to NP.GN came in over Elk Park Pass and then built to Seattle.1969 is a lot better than 2005 for these tests, isn’t it.
As for Butte and Silver Bow, while UP operations were centered in Silver Bow, don’t forget that UP’s Salt Lake City-Butte “Butte Special” operated directly into the Mining City (to/from the BN/NP station) until Amtrak day, 1971.
I’ve always been fascinated by why so many railroads served Superior, NE. The town was on CB&Q’s east-west line across the Southern portion of Nebraska hugging the Kansas border (and even entering Kansas) and was on an obscure Missouri Pacific branch line to Hastings, NE. But I always wondered why ATSF, and more amazingly, C&NW built there…and stopped!
I guess they all thought it had “Superior” traffic potential.[:D]
Watertown SD is another, GN, C&NW, CRI&P, M&SL.
CMSP&P had the most track in SD and they surrounded it but stayed out.
Wow, in order to even come close to Aceing one of these tests, you would need to be about my age, mid fifties…example, the Madison, WI answer should be either C&NW or Milwaukee Road but neither exists any longer and the railroad of record there now is the WSOR (FYI, neat old display train of Milwaukee Road passenger cars and an old E9 shell at the old Milwaukee passenger station near the U.W. Madison campus…now a restaurant I believe).