Answer to the Quiz...Ready?
Long Island Railroad engine 401 was once on the leading edge of technology. In the 1920s, it was the first diesel locomotive in the United States to be put into regular service by any railroad. It was built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), in conjunction with General Electric and Ingersoll-Rand. In the picture used in the quiz, the engine partially visible behind 401 was another ALCO. ALCO locomotives served Long Isalnd constantly from the 1940s through the 1990s.
The automobile shown in the quiz was the car which raced through Hicksville to win the Vanderbilt Cup in 1909 and again in 1910. Like the LIRR engines mentioned above, it was built by the American Locomotive Company!
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 9, 1910
The photo below is believed to be an October 1910 photo of Broadway,
jammed with people looking for vantage points from which to view the Vanderbilt Cup Race.
One of these may be the car that parked on Old Country Road and was struck by Louis Chevrolet's Marquette-Buick.
Nassau County Museum photo, from the Evers' book "Hicksville
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