Trains - History and Future

The first transportation on tracks were powered by....

• Horses, Ox and people

• Internal Combustion

• Steam

• Solar power

The oldest train/tracks rails are where?

• China

• US

• Russia

• Europe

What country had the first large scale rail network for transportation?

• US

• England

• Germany

• Japan

The first "subway" or underground train was in ...

• New York

• Boston

• London

• Tokyo

The first train line in the US went between which two locations?

• New York and Boston

• LA and San Francisco

• Chicago to Detroit

• Baltimore and Ohio

This country had the first commercial high speed train.

• What is Germany?

• What is Japan?

• What is England?

• What is China?

Locomotion means

• Movement

• Crazy moves

• A train on the tracks

• Stopping a ttrain

America mostly uses this type of transportation, in 2021.

• Electric motorcycles

• High speed electric trains

• Horses and carriages

• Fossil fuel based cars on freeways and roads

There is one high speed train route in the US and it is called...

• Stevenson Rocket

• Acela

• Hyperloop

• Shinkansen

What railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast?

• Trans-Siberian Railway

• Trans-Pacific Rail Line

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Shinkansen Railway