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Rail transport modelling, an Uncommon card
Railway modelling or model railroading is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 59,000
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Rail transport modelling quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Rail transport modelling card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was powered by ______ and ran in a figure-of-eight.
Answer
clockwork. It was powered by clockwork and ran in a figure-of-eight. From the Rail transport modelling article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The earliest model railways were the carpet railways in the ____s.
Answer
1840s. The earliest model railways were the carpet railways in the 1840s. From the Rail transport modelling article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Coxinha. Coxinha 84,000 · Rail transport modelling 59,000 · Liskeard South and Dobwalls 170 · Urrós halt 110 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The earliest model railways were the carpet railways in the 1840s.
- The first documented model railway was the Railway of the Prince Imperial, built in 1859 by Emperor Napoleon III for his then three-year-old son, also Napoleon, in the grounds of the Château de Saint-Cloud in Paris.
- It was powered by clockwork and ran in a figure-of-eight.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Rail transport modelling article was read about 59,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Rail transport modelling
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Rail transport modelling (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Yoji Tabuchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
