Who...How...What...

Fred wrote:

yup- you did muck it up a bit- I'll have to mull this over.
Fred

think people named for the place where they live, and people who don't live at that place but still got that name (because of that mistake back in....(long long before trains)), and then think about water that is named for the land where the first mentioned people live, and then take another coast of that water...

Indians- West Indies- Caribbean - Pacific and Caribbean railways GONG!

Fred wrote:

Indians ... Pacific

and now what continent...

..there you find the line, and the stretch of track which holds a record for this...

austrailia

Fred wrote:

austrailia

that's the place...

now the train...

ULie wrote:

Fred wrote:

austrailia

that's the place...

now the train...

I'm going to bed now, but I still would like to get the name of the train. As a help here my original message:

I'm looking for a railline that is famous for a certain stretch of track. To give a few hints I will write this:

The name of the train on this line has a word in it that usually is connected to another continent, but which there is reasoned by a mistake in navigation in the past. The certain stretch of railline is in an environment where you need to bring the same stuff with you as on the journey where the mistake in navigation was made. I'm sure they have that stuff in the train in abundance and also in finer versions, so you won't have to bring it yourself...

The mistake is solved, it was Columbus who wanted to sail to India by going westward from Portugal. Because he was mistaking the island where he ended up for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as "Indians".

So much about the way to one part of the name. Now I just need to hear (read) the full name of the train in Australia. As I also wrote it runs trough a stretch of the railline that is in a list of a certain feature on the first place, and if you don't use the train, but use a slower mode of transportation on this stretch you might get low on the same stuff that you can get low if crossing an ocean in a slow ship or boat, even if it sounds paradox to get low of that stuff on an ocean...

CU tomorrow...

The Indian Pacific , I'm thinking.

Mike

Hello Mike,
GNFan wrote:

The Indian Pacific , I'm thinking.

Congratulation, that's the train . Also to find at this website . The record I was pointing at is that out there in the Nullabor plain . Here you can find the longest straight section of railway in the world (478 km).

I moved some points over, and now it's your turn to find a question for the audience...

Greetings from Germany to Seattle...

Thanks. I'll try to use the points only for good and not for evil.

Earlier in this thread, I was wondering "what question am I going to ask if I answer someone else's question correctly?" (Despite the name, I know very little about trains, and not that much about the Great Northern, specifically - I just know I like 'em.) That said, I didn't want to be so obvious as to make mine a GN question....and this one definitely is not! Here goes:

What railroad offers passenger service from its country's capital city to, among others, a city that shares its name with a form of poetry? Extra points if you can name both the English- and native- language names for the road.

The Iarnród Éireann or in English Irish Rail connects Dublin, Ireland with Limerick:

There was a young lady from Riga,
who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
They returned from the ride
with the lady inside
and the smile on the face of the tiger.

well done

That was fast, Uwe! Points are on their way.

The Irish Rail website is here

Perhaps the defining limerick is:

The limerick is furtive and mean
You must keep her in close quarantine
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene.

(Limericks do have a tendency towards the bawdy. )

Hello Mike,
GNFan wrote:

That was fast, Uwe!
[and]
(Limericks do have a tendency towards the bawdy. )

When I saw the question first about 10 minutes after you posted it I knew the answer, but thought, well not me again so soon. But then I couldn't resist anyway...

Ireland is still on my list of countrys to visit. Until then I will have to live with only going to concerts of The Dubliners . Last time was in December, and we took our son too. Amazing they were famous already when I was in the same age as he is now...

Unfortunately they didn't perform a song written by Pat Cooksey from Limerick "The Sick Note" this time...

Now I will go to bed and think about the next question...

...well here we go, and I just got a bag with chocolate frogs. Some of them my wife and my son stole from me, but the rest I can share with a few friends.
Since there were 100 pieces in the bag, and my son took 15 and my wife a further 7, I'm now going to share with 8 friends.

Now can you tell me where we will meet to share, and which engine will pull our train?

OK Uwe, this should be a really good one.

This is perplexing. I think I will wait before hopping in.

I'm thinking the math is the clue. I'm thinking it is a 2-8-2 engine, a DB something, maybe.

TerryH wrote:

I'm thinking the math is the clue. I'm thinking it is a 2-8-2 engine, a DB something, maybe.

well, that's really cool...

...sorry I mean cold. The math is a clue, but it has nothing to do with the wheels of the engine. I will even be so nice and give you the right numbers for that:

4-6-0 and 6 on the tender, and no not DB...

and yes, there is another clue in my question...


CU tomorrow morning (my time)...

Dooohh....

ULie wrote:

...well here we go, and I just got a bag with chocolate frogs. Some of them my wife and my son stole from me, but the rest I can share with a few friends.
Since there were 100 pieces in the bag, and my son took 15 and my wife a further 7, I'm now going to share with 8 friends.

Now can you tell me where we will meet to share, and which engine will pull our train?

Mathematics is a dangerous field...
I was just thinking about my question, and discoverd that I made a mistake...

I won't share "with" 8 friends, we will be 8 friends who shares...


But the question remains, where will we meet to share, and which engine will pull our train.

And yes, for both you can find a picture on the net...


Sorry for the mistake, I apologize to all who were on the right path...

Uwe,

If you add the Engine road numbers together do they equal 23?

Such as road number 2795, 2+7+9+5=23.

Jerry,