Wooden Rails Eastward Ho

Goal: In 1851 wooden rails and mules made portage around Columbia River rapids. Now in 1862 you will bring locomotive power to the NorthWest, build and connect the shortlines into a profitable rail system.

Author's Comments: For this map you are hired and can be fired by the Tycoons, who want you to build and run almost all of the first North West railroads from 1862 to 1895. This is a very busy and difficult map; but, It does have two levels of difficulty to choose from. It requires 90% single trackage, 1200 hauls to the Portland area and contracted yearly railroad hauls. It has both major and minor congestion areas to engineer. But the CBV and PNW goals are fairly simple if not too easy. And, If you don't like the pre planted yards with river culverts in Portland and Seattle, bulldozing is cheap and your bridge foreman can build bridges. The car weight charts may help you balance train weight for single track operations which is very important on this map to reach gold.