To go with that, I refer to 0-6-0s as Jintys, like the do on british railways.
Okay, once I figured out how to work it, I got 35 out of 42, even though the game wouldn’t accept my Y-class answer for the 2-8-8-2 (?). Must have typed it in wrong. And even though the Norfolk and Western was NOT the only railroad to field 2-8-8-2’s, evidently they were the only railroad to actually ‘name’ them. Well, except for SP and their early cab-forwards, LOL!
One difference of opinion: The 2-6-4 to my knowledge was called a “Baltic”, not an “Adriatic”.
But that was a fun quiz. [:P]
Tom [:)]
The C&O called their 2-8-8-2’s “Chesapeakes”.
As for the 2-6-4, it was an “Adriatic”. “Baltic” was the other name for “Hudson”. MILW’s 4-6-4’s were “Baltics” and not “Hudsons”.
“Adriatic”: http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/at/steam/310-16/310_23_XTDN.jpg
Here’s a pic that shows the wheel arrangement a bit better: http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/at/steam/310-16/310-23_mvp_200903.jpg
Andre
I think what is confusing people is the label “name”. Quite a few people (including me) probably first thought that they were supposed to enter their own name in the box on top before we could start answering the questions below.
Also - I had expected the user interface to either cycle through the questions, feeding them to me one by one, or at least to allow me to decide (by clicking on the labels below, or into a edit box next to the wheel arrangement or using a check box or radio button or something) which question I wanted to answer at any given time.
Nope - you just write in the edit box at the top what you think will be the name associated with any of the wheel arrangements below, and it will put the answer (if it matches what it expects) next to the wheel arrangement that matches.
If you are wrong, no feedback. You will just have to figure out that your answer is wrong, delete it and try something else. If you are right, the answer will be displayed next to the wheel arrangement in the list below.
I figured it out after a while (before reading Crandell’s post), but it is a pretty non-intuitive user interface.
The test doesn’t really measure whether you know which name goes with which wheel arrangement.
If I was King, I’d show the Triplex wheel arrangement as 2-8-8-0+0-8-2.
Mark
The land speed record for a steam locomotive in N. America is held by a CPR Jubilee 4-4-4. It’s Whyte namesake is not on the list.
-Crandell
Extra credit for knowing which class of CPR 4-4-4’s made the speed record.
Andre
I got 33 of them right, and I’m a diesel guy.
I though the “hand” was funny though
Andre:
Thanks for the correction. You’d think that at MY age I’d remember those Milwaukee 4-6-4’s, LOL! I’m not sure, but didn’t Lionel once sport an O-guage 2-6-4 in the 1950’s and call it a “Pacific?” [%-)]
Tom [:)]
Andre:
Thanks for the correction. You’d think that at MY age I’d remember those Milwaukee 4-6-4’s, LOL! I’m not sure, but didn’t Lionel once sport an O-guage 2-6-4 in the 1950’s and call it a “Pacific?”
Tom
At our ages, I expect we’re lucky not to need adult diapers and full-time custodial care.[(-D]
I don’t remember if Lionel called a 2-6-4 a Pacific. However, Lionel’s 2-6-2 was loosely based on the Pennsy K-4. http://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_675_loco.htm
Andre
If you’re going to put the 0-5-0 0n the list, you might as well include the “good ole 4-8-6-2”.
i got 37 out of 42, But really, I’ve never heard a 2-2-2 or a 2-4-0 called anything at all. not all 0-4-4s were forneys, many 2-6-4s and 0-4-4s were mason bogies- whole different animal. names for articulated, well many had one name on one rr and were called something else 10 miles down the pike