Test your knowledge. Can you name the steam locomotives from their wheel arrangement?
Gotta love sporcle… but I only got 14 out of 28. Now someone has to make a game about different styles of diesels by manufacturer or something.
Cahrn
I got 27 out of 28. Missed “Bull Moose”.
(Never even heard of that one!)
John
22 out of 28 [:(] - but not bad for someone, who´s “outastate”! [:)]
I don’t know why I did this. I only got 11 out of 28.
Those articulated guys and the larger wheel configurations escape me.
I would argue with some of them, since it doesn’t allow for alternate names and some of the names are what was just used on one railroad, but the not on other railroads. For example, I have heard of 4-8-0 being called Mastadon’s and 2-8-8-0’s weren’t “Bull Mooses” on many roads. The “Y class” was only on the N&W.
For example, I have heard of 4-8-0 being called Mastadon’s and 2-8-8-0’s weren’t “Bull Mooses” on many roads.
There weren’t that many roads owning 2-8-8-0’s. Off the top of my head the only ones I can think of are UP, B&O, Pennsy (1 or 2 IIRC), GN and the Utah Railway (UP copies).
They missed some. For example, the 2-4-2 Columbia and the 4-2-2 Bicycle type. Admittedly, both were rare, but they did exist. They also missed the 4-10-2 (Overland or Southern Pacific depending on your particular bias). The 4-12-2 Union Pacific type is not there, either.
Did I mention that they missed the 0-12-0 tank engine that, if memory serves, was built for the Philadelphia & Reading in 1863?
Oh yeah, and what about the 2-6-8-0’s owned by the GN and the 4-4-6-2’s built for the Santa Fe?
0-6-6-0’s are missing as are 0-8-8-0’s, not to mention any 0-4-0, 0-6-0, 0-8-0, 0-10-0 and 0-10-2 (Union).
SP’s 4-6-6-2’s are missing as well, unless you want to count them in the 2-6-6-4 population (also missing).
Andre
Some test.
Maybe I’m not computer savy enough, but I could not get the game to work?
Sheldon
Edit: I guess I needed to register - no thank you.
Not to mention that the answers are generally subjective and largely wrong as others have noted.
Some wheel arrangements didn’t have generic names like “Mogul” or “Mikado.” Some were only known by a particular railroad’s class designation such as “AC” (which referred to 2-8-8-2, 2-8-8-4 and 4-8-8-2 types). Also, it seems a few common and rare wheel arrangements had no “generally accepted” moniker (prototype or hobby designations) such as the 0-6-0 (six-coupled switcher), 2-6-6-2, 2-6-6-0, and 2-8-2+2-8-0. Some arrangements had multiple names depending on the railroad, geographical area, and era.
My impression is that real railroaders referred to locomotives by their class designations or number series more often than modelers do.
Mark
Thanks for the knowledge. I actually made the game, and I just updated it with some of the info you guys posted. I left out the 0-6-0s,0-8-0s, etc… because I couldn’t find a nickname for those other than “switcher”.
To play the game all you have to do is click the green play button.
As for the diesels, I might do that next, and at least there would be no doubt about what each is called!
I clicked, it would not let me fill anything in?
Sheldon
Agreed, The list was derived by someone with a certain orientation or history, and that is reflected in what he/she terms the ‘correct’ answers.
-Crandell
If you clicked the green button, you should be able to type in the text box that appears where the green button was. You dont type the answers next to the question. Type them in the text box that has “Enter” next to it.
As for the actual answers, I did add some alternates, but if you try one and it doesnt work let me know so I can add it and make the game more accurate.
P.S. The ones with alternate answers will accept all that I know.
I got 27 out of 42.
Bundy:
Sorry, but WHAT “Enter?” No “enter” comes up for me on the box at all. Like Sheldon, I guess I’m not that computer savvy, but you COULD make this a little easier to get into, LOL!
Tom [:)]
What happened for me is, when I opened the page, there was a yellow text box with “Click to Start” above a list of the various Whyte notations. Click in that yellow text box, and the text box clears, changing to another colour. Simply type your ‘name’ in the text box, no matter which order a name comes to you, and the applet will dutifully add any name it has stored to the appropriate box beside the corresponding Whyte notation. You wiill see it appear there.
So, for example, after the text box clears upon your click, you think of “pacific”, and you type it just that way…no caps needed. The name “Pacific” will appear immediately beside notation 4-6-2.
Note that, if the classification entered by buddy doesn’t include the name that comes to mind, nothing happens. You must clear it and try again. I had tons of time, but couldn’t recall some of the names. I tried “Russian” first for the 2-10-0, but soon found that it wanted “decapod.”
Have fun.
-Crandell
I’m sorry but the 6-4-4-6 is better known as the Big engine or Mr big. Duplex could also be the T1 and Q1 and Q2. 4-4-4-4 and 4-4-6-4 and also 4-6-4-4. What about the turbine 6-8-6?
Pete
I was able to remember 29/42. Would have been 30 but I couldn’t spell “Mastadon” correctly. Nice touch including the 0-5-0, I really enjoyed that one.
Enjoy
Paul
Some arrangements had multiple names depending on the railroad, geographical area, and era.
Yeah, you could use a considerable portion of the allotted time just putting in all the different names for a 4-8-4.
Andre
25 0f 42. I knew about five more after seeing the answers, but drew a blank. I’ve never heard of a of the rest before.