Railroad Empire description
In fact, a prototype of the A-Train, a much more known and considered by many a successful game on approximately the same theme – creating a rail Empire.
Title screen. Introduction screen.
Of course, this game is the detail and variety inferior to the A-Train, but still very interesting. The action takes place in the late nineteenth century, there are two scenarios: the construction of the Mesoamerican highway from new York to Los Angeles or TRANS-European, from England (despite the position of the island) to Turkey (European American community); naturally, the game involves not only the construction and subsequent operation and management (although the control directly only one train). However, types of "passengers" are only two: people and cargo. Unlike A-Train, there's no stock market, no possibility to buy the locomotives, so the main part of the gameplay is building.
The satellite view helps keep an eye on your train lines and is essential for planning routes. The actual game screen. Lay tracks with the A-Train for other trains to follow on. A growing railroad empire at night with two small circle lines shedding moderate revenues. A real-time report informs you about your train lines efficiency.
Perhaps the gameplay is something called simple: planning options ways not so much, so it's important to ensure that counter ways do not intersect; however, there is as limited in resources as rails (by the way, it is necessary to organize the delivery of resources to build the stations) and all sorts of natural barriers (such as rivers [but through them you can build bridges]), so to think of the future route paths still should be approached with particular attention. An interesting feature is the alternation of day and night in the game, which plays an important role in the gameplay: pave the way forward can only be day, and to translate arrows on the roads – only at night.
In the European scenario you start out in Italy. Europe at sunset. Since you cant build tracks through forests and can pass mountains and rivers via pre-built tunnels and bridges only
Graphically the game looks, again, not as good as A-Train (but it was released three years earlier): view from top of graphs is actually only the landscapes, drawn, by the way, very, very nicely and clearly. The game interface can not be called difficult, but should prepare for the fact that it is still quite tricky, so animated inserts it will not be enough, but "boring" statistical reports – not very little. But the lover of serious policies should be like.
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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com