This is your monthly reminder,it will be held at  Sheraton Gateway Suites 6501 N Mannheim Rd Rosemont,IL 60018  August 8-11,2009 (Just before GenCon) ...
For those in the Chicago area who need a train game fix I will be at the Concentric Game day. I will have the Board Game library out there as well (the same...
Hello! I am new to this group and have a question. Has anyone here heard of Avalon Hill's game Dispatcher? If so, do you have any hints or variants for the...
Andrew: I have played Dispatcher, though a long time ago. I'm not sure of how to answer your questions. If you would like to send me an eMail with specifics,...
+-- ... +-- This is a very old game, from somewhere around 1950. I have a photocopy of the game and have played it a couple of times. It's an interesting...
They came out with MARTIAN RAILS? COOL! When did that one come out? "People should not be afraid of their government, a government should be afraid of its...
Rob, Martian Rails is not out yet. Mayfair Games is working on it. People have prototypes and playtest copies have been available at various cons for 2+ years....
Greetings, I own the game and have played it once. I think of that single play as an accomplishment as the game is a really difficult game to start with, and...
Dispatcher (I believe also sold under the name C&O/B&O) was a game that the players had nothing to do with. By that I mean, there was little a player could do...
Thanks, Bill! I’ll take you up on that after I dig it out again and set it up, maybe next week sometime. Andrew ... From: railgamefan@yahoogroups.com...
Dispatcher and C&O/B&O are two separate games with two different train scheduling scenarios. You're also incorrect on there being "little a player could do to...
I am sorry for not staying with the correspondence over Avalon Hill's "DISPATCHER." This note is for those who gave it some attention during the last month....
Has anyone on this list been to Origins? I never have, and I've wondered how much rail gaming occurs there compared to other conventions. -Steve...
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Steve, Yes, there is a significant amount of rail games played. There is a Puffing Billy contest and all of the individual games that go into that have their ...
Hi RailGameFans, Lots of Empire Builder news! As you may have heard, Mayfair Games is readying a new edition of the Eurorails board game that should be out...
Steve Okonski
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Jun 16, 2009 11:06 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the railgamefan group: Select all the Empire Builder board games that in your opinion are the better...
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What is this game? Is it a Mayfair Crayon Rails game? If so, when was it produced, where is it set, and where can I find it?...
... This was a Mayfair game. Special run for a museum in the 80's. Not a catalog item. The only way to get a copy is if a current owner sells it. (Or an estate...
Rob, It was designed for the Huntington Museum of Art http://www.hmoa.org/ which is a wonderful gem of a museum in the area. The game was designed as a special...
That copy on Ebay was available in 2002. I ran across it several months after it was completed. I haven't seen another one on Ebay since then. (I keep a...
I'm a new user here. Although I searched the messages, I cannot seem to find my question asked before. I haven't played Empire Builder in years, but I've...
I know lunar uses a system of color, and letter combos for finding the proper place to go from one side of the moon, to the other, but if I remember right, the...
Chris, The more recent editions of the Empire Builder series board games display around the edges of their map a letter-number coordinate system that is...
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Hi, Rob. Thank you for responding to my question. A general quadrant should be all I would need in Lunar Rails to find the city in question. There cannot be...
Hi, Steve. Thank you for answering my question. I was not aware that the newer board games contained such a grid. Russian Rails, the only one of the board...
Russian Rails doesn't cover the entirety of Russia. It covers European Russia, with a little of Asia thrown in, like one, or two of the Stans. If you would...
We have used Miami, and LA, and used Tranquility Base as the landing site, but we found that the random sites added an extra dimension to the game. Also, if I...
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