Train Tycoon: Railway World

A hand-drawn railroad on a real map of the world: 395 cities, six continents, and one station to start with. Here is how the first year usually goes. Day 1. You build a station in your first city and lay track to the next one. Rails cost money, so you choose every stretch yourself. Day 4. The lumber camp brings in timber, the mine brings in iron. Workshops turn them into beams and ingots, the factory into ties and rails. Now your own industry builds the railroad. Day 9. New faces at the labor exchange, each with a name, an age, a trade and a price. Everyone needs a home and a bus to the job. Skip the city bus line and nobody gets to work, and the workshop stands idle. Day 20. The city asks for a power station, police, a hospital and a cinema. Meet every need, the rating hits one hundred percent, and it can sink a diamond mine. Day 35. Waybills arrive: ties to Leon, oil for export to Seoul. Take a contract and deliver on time, or pay the penalty. Day 60. Every country has its own trade: coffee in Brazil, tea in India, wine in France, gold in South Africa. Goods wait in the warehouse until prices rise on the exchange, and exports to the country of the fair of the week pay half again as much. Every morning. The Railroad Gazette reports what happened overnight, today's exchange prices and where the fair is. A game day lasts 30 minutes, and the railroad keeps running even while the game is closed. If a bus breaks down or a line is finished, a telegram arrives. Day 312. Your album holds postcards from every city your railroad has reached, and medals for 35 honors. Your trains wear the company livery, and your name is in the Hall of Fame among tycoons from around the world.