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[Anonymous]

If you are interested in a buisness for trains you should try this.[:D]I dont know about you but i loved it![:D][8D][:)][;)][swg][tup][tup][yeah]

[StillGrande]

3 was okay but the scenarios are too short. Too few trains and not enough to do. 3 seemed more interested in its 3d ride along features (which were cool, but only for so long).

2 was much better in my opinion. You could go coast to coast, run for 100+ years. Hundreds of trains. Takeovers, drive other railroads under, or cooperate (somewhat) with the other lines. I still play it from time to time.

Actually, I liked the original best of all (if it still ran on XP, I would play today). You had to build in signaling to build capacity. Worry about the competition, improve your lines, look for new industry, worry about others going under, whether to invest in new factories (which could still close!) and decide where trains would be built (locos didn't just appear, you had to plan for them).

For another good game, try transportation tycoon (an old title). Build land, sea and air. Keep towns and cities happy, mess with competition all kinds of ways (funding road construction in cities where the competition had lots of truck terminals was always a favorite of mine). Worry about mines and factories closing, try to balance rail traffic on lines requiring signals, switches, double or single tracks, terminal sizes, maintenance, etc. Airports with jets and helicopters, sea ports. Sid Meier really had a good game here. He really dropped the ball with its update, Locomotion.

[StillGrande]

The original was also cool because you could sit back and really dispatch trains on the line, change signals and then sweat out the speed of trains, worry about bridges going out, monitor terminal traffic. I miss that view most of all.