In Railroads!, you'll play as a fledgling, young industrialist in competition with backstabbing robber barons trying to drive each other (and you) out of business. Scenarios are mission-focused, giving tasks such as connecting New York City with Washington, DC. Competition is fierce, however, and the other rail captains won't hesitate to box in your line, causing you to make costly detours.
You'll construct your rail empire using history's most famous trains, from James Watt's most humble early steam haulers to the nickel-plated, streamlined empire-builders. The world-speed-record crushing No. 4468 Mallard will fly your passengers across the European continent in style. However, the USA has its own star on the southwest's Santa Fe line: the iconic Super Chief. With its red and silvery headdress, the presence of the Chief in Railroads! threatens a flash-flood of emotions if you ever laid one reverently onto an H.O. scale track.
Sid Meier's Railroads! will steam into view this fall, but the makers may let us get our hands on the throttle for a closer look before then.
This is the part where we get to say, "All aboard!"
