I had Sid Mier's Railroad Tycoon for my Amiga computer back in the early 90's. It started this genre and was a lot of fun. I bought RT2 and RT3 hoping they would capture what I liked in the original but they didn't and were too serious for my taste. I'm more interested in the building, planning, and managing of train routes, consists, and future expansion. I always felt the stock market stuff was an annoying distraction. Better to build off your own profits from making wise decisions in my view.
Anyway, I bought Railroads once again hoping it would capture more of the building aspects but it's pretty much a watered down version of the RT series. They are taking people's feedback for a future patch, so I'm hopeful they may reorgainize the sim a bit. Time passes too quickly, you can't manage signals manually if you want. Track laying is weird. I never did like laying track as if holding a bull whip and swinging it around before releasing the mouse. I want to "build" the track route by section. The maps are also too congested. They need to spread things out more.
Let's hope they make some improvements.
scrapser
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