The fifth game in Winsome's Prairie Railroads Series. An economic railroad building gamer's game, Veld Railroads takes place in South Africa during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Players bid for stock in the six available rail lines, construct track, and develop the settlements of South Africa. Historical events such as the growth...
Pumpkin Express, part of Roll and Write Revolution, is a train game of developing routes from one pumpkin patch to the next. While doing so, players will be placing stations, which then allow them to help ghostly passengers get on board 1 of 3 train cars. Ghost passengers have particular likes of other ghosts within the car. Players will have to carefully...
Puzzle Train Puzzle Train is a boardgame 'German type' (puzzle slide-game) for 4 players design by José Carlos de Diego Guerrero, based in Puzzle Railroad pc-game by XD Games and it is a crossover of Mississippi Queen and Carcassonne. This game was published in the magazine Tabula #6 (in Spanish). Links: Review in Revista Tabula #6 (in Spanish)...
Suddenly the Panorama Express comes to a standstill. Wait, what is it? The incredibly precious necklace called "The Fire of Eschnapur", which belongs to the rich lady heiress of Schnackenstein, has suddenly disappeared! What happened? The investigations begin with the puzzle. It's time to put on your detective hat and become a puzzle master. Get ready to...
A quick-fire game of searching, moving and forfeits...but keep your elbows in! Players are given a starting station and must then find it on one of the 36 journey cards (each has four stations): the entry will tell them the time of their next train and where it will take them (to be noted). Eventually, each player will see that their next station stop is...
This Chad Valley title is a simple roll-and-move railway game for up to four players. There are four starting stations, and the goal is to reach the finish station by one of three tracks leading into it. In between, various tracks criss-cross each other. Landing on a split space requires moving to the branch line, and landing on one of the intersections...
Materials 41 Train Cards and 1 Tender Card. 8 coal tokens and 2 black wooden train tokens. And an instruction booklet. Goal The player to reach the Promontory Summit in Utah wins the Transcontinental Railroad Race of 1869! Setup One player plays along the Central Pacific Line and the other along the Union Pacific Line. Place one train token next to the...
This game has interesting ideas, especially in the manner you accrue track. The locomotive shaped board has many segments. In your turn you must move to an adjacent segment and you can then take the track allowed by the new segment that you are in. Furthermore, next turn, you cannot move back into the segment you were in at the start of your last turn (In...
Rail Baron is one of the earlier train games - boardgames with a railroad theme. Players move trains along historical USA railroad lines and collect delivery payoffs. They compete to purchase the railroads in order to assemble a network that gives access to important map destinations while simultaneously trying to prevent their opponents from doing so....
Rail Baron Rivals is a game where you and a rival baron are competing to have the most cash after 12 years of development in the golden age of railroading in the U.S. Northeast. Each year is represented by a turn in which you will roll 5 special dice that are used by one or more railroads to build track, expand cities and improve infrastructure. You may...
From the publisher: "Venture into America's romantic past. It is time when the young Nation is struggling to survive the tragic Civil War years in which over 620,000 lives were lost; families torn asunder; and the assassination of a President is being secretly planned. It is also a time when a small group of men rose against all odds amassing great...
This is a city-building and railroad game in which you build a city in front of yourself and extend four railroad lines. The city cards that make up the city have the demands of the four rail lines written on them, and you need to lay out the rail lines accordingly. Also, plan cards must be assigned to railroad lines, which must pass through specific...