Great Passenger Trains

Goal: Map #1 (20th Century Limited): Recreate the competition between New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Baltimore & Ohio for passenger traffic between the East Coast and the Midwest.

Map #2 (Broadway Limited): Recreate the competition between New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Baltimore & Ohio for passenger traffic between the East Coast and the Midwest.

Map #3 (Capitol Limited): Recreate the competition between New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Baltimore & Ohio for passenger traffic between the East Coast and the Midwest.

Author's Comments: A map dedicated to the great Limiteds that ran in the eastern part of the U.S. during the 20th Century.

Acknowledgements: The map is based on Poptop's (www.poptopsoftware.com) campaign map #2 for the Classic Campaign; the idea for the scenario came out of two articles in Classic Trains Magazine (www.classictrainsmag.com), Winter 2002, p. 22-37.

Compatability: Runs with the "The Second Century", "Gold", and "Platinum" editions of Railroad Tycoon II.

Players: Multiplayer and single player.

Objective: Haul the most passengers and mail between the major cities of the East Coast (New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.) on the one hand, and Chicago and St. Louis, on the other. If your company had the highest average speed of all railroads in any year, loads hauled between these places during that year count double.

Duration: 30 years, with start years ranging between 1902 and 1940.

Victory Conditions: Multiplayer - haul the highest number of loads between East Coast and Midwest cities. Single Player - Bronze: haul the highest number of loads between East Coast and Midwest cities; Silver: haul at least 400 loads between these places; Gold: haul at least 600 loads.

Versions: This map comes in three versions that differ as to what railroad company the human player chairs in a single player game; and as to the order of the player characters in a mutliplayer game.