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Exodus 23:20 |
Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way. |
I send an angel |
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What punctuation mark is used for a statement? |
Period |
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What punctuation mark is used for a question? |
Question mark |
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What punctuation mark is used to show excitement? |
Exclamation point |
! |
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What punctuation mark is used to show that someone is speaking? |
Quotation marks |
" " |
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What were trains first pulled by? |
Horses |
A large farm animal |
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What invention largely changed how people traveled and moved their goods? |
The invention of the way to use the power of steam to run an engine |
What is coming out of the locomotive? |
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What do you need to make steam? |
Fuel (wood or coal) and water ( when boiled makes steam) |
There are 3 items. One is coal seen here in the tender car. |
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What wealthy American man, after watching the horse drawn trains decided that steam power would work better than horses, and built a small steam locomotive to prove it? |
Peter Cooper |
His last name is Cooper |
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What is the name of the famous race to prove steam engines were faster than horses? |
Tom Thumb's Race |
It has Thumb in the name |
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Who won Tom Thumb's race? The steam engine or the horse? |
The horse! |
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What was Americas first passenger train service? |
The Best Friend of Charleston |
The Best Friend of ... |
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How long did The Best Friend of Charleston run and what stopped its service? |
About 6 months. It was also the victim of America's first train boiler explosion. |
Half a year. |
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What was the job of the fireman on the train? |
To shovel coal or wood from the tender into the fire that heated the water in the boiler. |
Shovel fuel... |
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Before the invention of brakes, how were trains stopped? |
Each car hand its own brake and brakeman who had to run along the top of the car and turn the wheel of the handbrake. |
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What part of the train cleared the tracks of animals of anything else in its way? |
The cowcatcher |
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What method of communication was used by railroads to avoid collisions? |
The electric telegraph |
The electric... |
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What was put in place to keep trains running on schedule and also help avoid collisions? |
Time zones |
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Name 2 famous outlaw train robbers |
Butch Cassidy and The sundance kid |
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What is the name of the agency hired to track down Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid? |
Pinkertons national detective agency |
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Name the girl who saved the midnight express from plummeting into Honey Creek |
Kate Shelley |
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Who created the luxurious "palace" sleeper cars? |
George Pullman |
George P |
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What U.S. President took his only ride in a private Pullman car after his death? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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What famous engineer was killed when his passenger train, the cannonball express collided with a stalled freight train on a rainy night? |
Casey Jones |
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What is the name of the train which in 1953, lost its breaks and came crashing into Washington DC's union station terminal? |
The federal |
The Fed... |
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What are some of the problems associated with America steam trains? |
Thick black smoke, very noisy, had to stop often to refuel. |
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What type of train replaced the steam powered train? |
Diesel electric train by 1950 followed by all electric trains |
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What ended the heyday of passenger trains ? |
Cars and jet planes |
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