{"product_id":"rail-baron","title":"Rail Baron","description":"\u003cp\u003eRail Baron is one of the earlier train games - boardgames with a railroad theme.\n\nPlayers move trains along historical USA railroad lines and collect delivery payoffs. They compete to purchase the railroads in order to assemble a network that gives access to important map destinations while simultaneously trying to prevent their opponents from doing so.\n\nFrom the Box (Avalon Hill Bookshelf Game)\nOnly in America!\n\nYou are living in the heyday of the locomotive. You are Jay Gould. And you have just added another railroad to your vast railroad empire. Flushed with success, you now retire to the sartorial splendor of your very own Pullman Palace Car. The dream ends. You awaken to reality with the thought... \"just another fantasy.\" Ahh, but for the grace of Avalon Hill, you dream continues.\n\nHere, in Rail Baron, you become a latter day Gould, or a Cornelius Vanderbilt, or any of those menacingly infamous moguls whose wizardry and acumen established the criteria for which business success was to be judged in decades to come.\n\nRail Baron is played on a large board of the United States RR network. in fact, it comes in three separate boards. Laid end to end, it spell out America and portrays the 28 major rail lines and major cities they connected during the halcyon days of railroading.\n\nYou start with $20,000 - and a train. You make money on trips from city to city. Pretty soon you've got enough money to build up your empire (you can buy the B\u0026amp;O and C\u0026amp;O for just $44,000). More holdings bring more money your way (track rental) from your opponents.\n\nWith many new nuances of strategy, it becomes a game where fortunes see-saw until the last rail baron is bankrupt - or has accumulated the $200,000 needed to win.\n\nAll of this may take 3 to 4 hours. But it's great fun for 3 to 6 people, ages 10 \u0026amp; up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePlayers:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3–6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePlay time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240 min\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplexity:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.26 \/ 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDesigners:\u003c\/strong\u003e R. S. Erickson, Thomas F. Erickson, Jr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1977\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Avalon Hill Game Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51909495226584,"sku":"SB-97697383FEED-BOARD-GAMES-UNK-SEALED","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/6271\/0488\/files\/9alm7n47ku3xgwnebisqg32a0cv7.jpg?v=1785464633","url":"https:\/\/abbyboardwalkstore.com\/products\/rail-baron","provider":"Boardwalk Cafe \u0026 Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}